“Asanga's commentary elaborates on this verse: The [ground consciousness] is difficult to understand, since it is not [taught] on the lower levels of the teachings, since it abides as bearing the characteristics of the seeds of the [six] operative consciousnesses,… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share
“Nagarjuna's verse 46]-is extensively taught. [Madhyamaka or emptiness] means being without characteristics that define true reality. It [means] to be unarisen, since it is neither existent nor nonexistent. It is neither something existent that has already arisen nor something nonexistent… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Pawo Rinpoche comments that, in Tibet, the intention of the lineage of profound view is usually explained as self-emptiness, that is, as a nonimplicative negation in which nothing whatsoever exists as a remainder after analysis through reasoning. The intention of the lineage of vast activity is explained as the other-empty ultimate that exists as a permanent and lasting remainder after… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share
“One may wonder, "What is seeing the ultimate?" It means that all phenomena are not seen.” — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Hence, [emptiness] is also not an object of [something like the] cognition of Buddhas, because they do not have [such a thing as] cognition.” — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Here, master Bhavya states [this as] the main argument, and then he formulates four autonomous reasons as the means to prove the subject property.… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“In general, every negation must depend on the rejection of an affirmation or proposition, which means that emptiness as a nonimplicative negation is not only conceptual but also dependent on something else. In fact, the very existence of a negation can only make sense in opposition to an affirmation. Hence, it is a mutually dependent phenomenon caught in the dichotomies… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share
“Therefore, everything is the illusory magical display of one's own mind. It is appearing yet delusive, and delusive while appearing. Thus, all of it is contained in the body, and the [body] is again contained in the mind. As for the mind, it has no color and no shape. It is natural luminosity that is primordially unborn. The very knowledge… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share
“In brief, the very quintessence of all meditative concentrations of both the sutras and the tantras of the great vehicle is to see, through… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“The Ornament of Sturas says: Therefore, liberation is only the exhaustion of mistakenness.” — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Not only can nobody deny the appearance of mere consciousness whose nature is other-dependent and not affected by the flaw of conceptions of a… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“And so-in what amounts to a deeply ironic twist of fate-Candrakirti was posthumously awarded highest honors from an orthodox scholarly tradition that could sustain its authority only by refusing to take seriously what he had himself insisted upon: Nagarjuna is not in the business of providing rational arguments designed to substantiate, prove, establish, or make certain anything.NN” — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share
“As for the notion of Buddha nature, there is no reifying interpretation of it in any of the texts of the lineage of vast activity. The teachings on Buddha nature are not meant as a philosophical or even ontological alternative to emptiness. Buddha nature or the luminous nature of the mind is not seen as a monistic absolute beside which… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share
“Whether on the level of no analysis or with analysis, it is never justified that mind exists whereas form does not exist. Under analysis,… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
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