Talk 6, 10 July, Evening talk, Tibetan - English
Translation by Ari Goldfield.
THE REFUTATION OF ARISING FROM THE FOUR EXTREMES
Authentic Portrait of The Middle Way
THE NOBLE SUTRA OF THE TEN GROUNDS
THE ASSERTIONS THAT THERE IS NO ARISING
"It does not originate from itself; how could it originate from something other?
Nor does it arise from self and other together; how could it arise without a cause?" (8ab)
Nagarjuna's first verse in The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way,
"To assert arising from self is to claim
That producer and produced are one, and that actor and object of action are one.
Since these things are not the same as each other, and because of all the other faults
that have been extensively explained,
We do not assert arising from self."(13))
important verse to remember!!!
"If a thing arose from something different from itself;;
Then pitch darkness would arise from a fire's flame.
Everything would arise from everything, and why is that?
Because all causes and non--causes would be equally different from the result." (14)
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