UMA CHIDUN current - The Knowledge Base

Do starting, and staying, and stopping
Exist, or do they not?
Is anything less, or equal, or better?
The Buddhas do say
That they do, and they are;
But only in keeping
With the words of the world.
It is not that they are so
In some way which is absolute.
RTZOD BZLOG RAB BYED DANG PO LAS 'PHROS SHING KHYAD PAR
DU YANG DGAG SGRUB KYI RNAM GZHAG 'THAD PAR BSTAN PA'I
TSUL YOD DE,
Now there is also the following way in which The Refutation of Argument
picks up from the first chapter of The Root Text on Wisdom, and goes more
specifically into how the system of disproving and proving things is also
still quite correct.
RAB BYED DANG PO LAS,
,DNGOS PO RNAMS KYI RANG BZHIN NI,
,RKYEN LA SOGS LA YOD MA YIN,
The first chapter itself states,
The nature of working things
Does not lie in their factors and such.
,ZHES DNGOS PO RNAMS RANG BZHIN GYIS MA SKYES PA'I RGYU
MTSAN GYIS RANG BZHIN GYIS MA GRUB PAR BSTAN PA NA,
These lines are meant to indicate that—because working things do not grow
through any nature of their own—then they cannot exist through any nature
of their own.