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But that’s completely incorrect, because on this point The Root Text on
Wisdom is ever so much more detailed than Entering the Middle Way: it
presents emptiness with an infinite variety of logical arguments.
RANG LUGS LA ZAB MO'I SGO NAS 'JUG TSUL YOD DE, GRUB MTHA'
'OG MA RNAMS DANG THUN MONG MIN PA'I KHYAD CHOS BRGYAD
BSTAN PA'I SGO NAS 'JUG PA DANG, RTZA SHE'I DGONGS PA MTHAR
THUG SEMS TZAM DU 'GREL DU MI RUNG BA LA NGES PA BRTAN PO
RNYED PA GNYIS KYI SGO NAS 'JUG PA'I PHYIR,
According to our position, there is a way that Entering the Middle Way enters
into The Root Text on Wisdom through the profound side of the teachings.
And this is true first because the former “enters” the latter by presenting
eight unique characteristics that distinguish the highest school from the
lower schools. Secondly, it allows a person to gain a firm realization that it
would be incorrect to interpret the ultimate intention of The Root Text on
Wisdom as being that of the Mind-Only School.
DANG PO YIN TE JI LTAR GZUGS SOGS BDEN PAS STONG BA'I STONG
NYID DE DBU MA'I BSTAN BCOS NAS 'BYUNG BA YIN GYI, SEMS
TZAM PA MAN CHAD KYI BSTAN BCOS NAS MI 'BYUNG BA
Now the first is true, for the following reasons. Emptiness—in the sense
that everything from form on up is empty of any real existence—does
appear in the classical commentary on the middle way; but it is not found
in the classical commentaries of the schools from the Mind-Only on down.
DE BZHIN DU RANG BZHIN GYIS MA GRUB PA GZHIR BYAS PA'I
STENG DU KUN GZHI RANG RIG MED PA SOGS KYI KHYAD CHOS
RNAMS RANG RGYUD PA MAN CHAD KYI GZHUNG NAS MI 'BYUNG
BAS,
In the same way, ideas such as the position that neither foundation
consciousness nor the ability of the mind to know itself in a single moment
exist at all (with this position taken from the more basic position that they
have no nature of their own) are distinctive positions that are not found in