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From Bodhicitta
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And, according to scripture, fruit comes from that worship,
whether it is conventionally true or ultimately true, in the
same way that worship offered to an existing Buddha is said
to be fruitful. +
[Hinayānist] Liberation comes from understanding the
Truths. What is the point of understanding emptiness?
[Madhyamika] The reason is that scripture states that there
is no Awakening without this path. +
Yogins in turn can be invalidated by the superior mental faculties of other yogins who have advanced higher in the path. Yet they agree on the similes that describe reality, and therefore do not differ on the goal they seek. +
[Hinayānist] Surely Mahāyāna scripture is not established!
[Mādhyamika] In what way is your scripture established?
[Hinayānist] Because it is established for both of us.
[Mādhyamika] It was not established for you at first! +
Apply your criterion for the acceptance of it to Mahāyāna
scripture also. If something is true because accepted by two
different parties even texts such as the Vedas would be
true. +
If your objection is that Mahāyāna scripture is controversial, reject your own scripture since it is contested by non-Buddhists, and any part in that scripture contested by your own people or others. +
The dispensation is rooted in the monkhood and the monkhood itself is imperfectly established. Even the Enlightenment of those whose minds grasp onto entities is imperfectly established. +
If your objection is that liberation results from the destruction of the defilements, then it should happen immediately afterwards. Yet one can see the power over them even of undefiled action. +
If you put forward the argument that tihey have no craving leading to grasping, [our response is:] Even if their craving is undefiled, does it not exist as delusion? +
Feeling causes craving, and they do have feeling. A mind which has objects will get stuck on one or another. +
Without emptiness a mind is fettered and arises again, as in
the meditative attainment of non-perception. Therefore one
should meditate on emptiness. +
You accept that whatever text might be in accordance with
the Discourses was spoken by the Buddha. So why are the
Mahayana scriptures not accepted as equal in value to your
own Discourses? +
If the whole lot is faulted because one part is not accepted,
why not treat the lot as spoken by the Conqueror because
a single part is the same as in the Discourses? +
Their dispute with the world stems from the fact that the common human perceives phenomena by reifying them, and not by seeing them as magical creations. +
Who will bar acceptance of the teaching over which those led by the Great Kāśyapa hesitated, simply because you do not understand it? +
Remaining in cyclic existence for the benefit of those suf-
fering through. delusion is achieved through freedom from
the two extremes, attachment and fear. This is the fruit of
emptiness. +
So, that being the case, there is no valid objection to the emptiness position. Therefore, emptiness should be meditated upon without reservation. +
Since emptiness is the countermeasure to the darkness of the obscuration of what is cognized and the obscuration by the defilements, how is it that one who desires Omniscience does not make haste to meditate upon it? +
Granted that something which causes suffering causes fear-but emptiness allays suffering! So why does it cause fear? +
Granted, too, fear may come from any quarter whatsoever if there is something called 'I'. If your position is that there is no 'I', who can be afraid? +
