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The following verse and commentary from Tsongkhapa's ''Illuminating the Intent'' illustrates this point: | The following verse and commentary from Tsongkhapa's ''Illuminating the Intent'' illustrates this point: | ||
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|quote-text=Who relinquishes what and in relation to whom— | |quote-text=:Who relinquishes what and in relation to whom—<br>when any of these three is objectified,<br>such morality is described as mundane perfection;<br>free of attachment to these three is supramundane. (2.9) | ||
when any of these three is objectified, | |||
such morality is described as mundane perfection; | |||
free of attachment to these three is supramundane. (2.9) | |||
When someone is incapable of ceasing the seed of objectifying the three as real—the person who relinquishes, what objects of abandonment he relinquishes, and in relation to which sentient beings he relinquishes—such morality is described as mundane perfection. If that very morality is free of attachment to these three spheres in the form of perceiving them as real— that is to say, if it is sustained by uncontaminated wisdom realizing them as not perceivable—it is supramundane perfection. Hence, by this distinction, morality is twofold.<ref>Thupten Jinpa, trans., ''Illuminating the Intent: An Exposition of Candrakīrti's Entering the Middle Way'', by Tsongkhapa (Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2021), 126–27.</ref> | When someone is incapable of ceasing the seed of objectifying the three as real—the person who relinquishes, what objects of abandonment he relinquishes, and in relation to which sentient beings he relinquishes—such morality is described as mundane perfection. If that very morality is free of attachment to these three spheres in the form of perceiving them as real— that is to say, if it is sustained by uncontaminated wisdom realizing them as not perceivable—it is supramundane perfection. Hence, by this distinction, morality is twofold.<ref>Thupten Jinpa, trans., ''Illuminating the Intent: An Exposition of Candrakīrti's Entering the Middle Way'', by Tsongkhapa (Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2021), 126–27.</ref> | ||
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