[MD] Pinhead with dancing angels

[MarshaV]

At 03:33 AM 3/14/2009, you wrote:

> From 'Introduction to the Middle Way: 
> Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara with Commentary 
> by Jamgön Mipham' by Chandrakirti (Author), 
> Jamgön Mipham (Author), Padmakara Translation Group (Translator), p.302:
>
>     b.  If one understands that the self is a mere
>          imputation, one will easily gain an
>          understanding of ultimate reality
>      i.  The actual benefit of such an understanding
>           --- an easy grasp of the ultimate
>
>160  How can a chariot, shown by the sevenfold 
>analysis to be completely unreal, be said to 
>exist?  The yogi finds no trace of it.  For if 
>it did exist, it would necessarily exist in one 
>of the seven ways (that the analysis has 
>disproved).  And one who realizes that the 
>chariot has not existence will gain an easy 
>understanding of ultimate reality.  Still, it is 
>important to understand that in the Madhyamika 
>tradition, it is also said that as long as the 
>chariot's existence is not subjected to investigation, it exists.
>


Yes, but when this chariot is investigated, "it 
disintegrates into a state beyond expression and reference."





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