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meditative concentration—and also the various levels of the extraordinary
vision of emptiness, which investigates the true nature of the two different
ways in which things lack any quality of their own. And it does so drawing
on additional material presented in The String of Jewels and other works of
the Collection on Reasoning. This then is how Entering the Middle Way
“enters into” The Root Text on Wisdom through the far-reaching side of the
teachings.
KHA CIG GIS, RTZA BA SHES RAB KYIS RGYA CHE BA'I PHYOGS MA
BSTAN TO ZER NA,
Now suppose someone comes again and makes the claim, “The Root Text on
Wisdom doesn’t present the far-reaching side of the teachings.”
DES RGYA CHE BA'I PHYOGS BSTAN PAR THAL, GZHI DNGOS PO'I
GNAS TSUL LAM BGROD PA'I RIM PA 'BRAS BU SANGS RGYAS KYI SA
DANG BCAS PA DNGOS BSTAN BSTAN BYA'I GTZO BOR BYAS NAS
BSTAN PA'I PHYIR,
But isn’t it the fact that this text does present the far-reaching side of things?
Because isn’t it the fact that the main thing it presents, and presents
explicitly, is the foundation—meaning the basic nature of all things; and the
various steps of the path we must travel; and the result of this path: the
level of an enlightened being.
DE RNAMS RANG BZHIN GYIS MED CING THA SNYAD DU YOD PA
DNGOS BSTAN BSTAN BYA'I GTZO BOR BYAS NAS BSTAN PA'I PHYIR,
And this is true because the main subject it speaks about, and speaks about
explicitly, is how all of these things lack any nature of their own, and yet
still exist nominally.
DER THAL, RANG BZHIN GYIS MED CING THA SNYAD DU YOD PA LA
DE RNAMS KYI RNAM GZHAG 'THAD PAR BRGAL LAN GYI SGO NAS
GTAN LA PHAB PA'I PHYIR,
And that too is true, because The Root Text on Wisdom sets forth—by
incorporating answers to arguments by the other side—how it is that all of
these things can, on the one hand, be devoid of any nature of their own; but