This being the case,
The Teacher thus proclaimed that all phenomena
Are peace from the beginning, free from any birth,
Complete transcendence1
of a nature that is real,
Which means that there is never any birth of things. (6.112)
And seeing as we have such scriptural statements, this means that there is never any production taking place. As a scripture states:
When turning the Wheel of Dharma
You teach that all phenomena
Are primordial peace free from arising,
The transcendence of any real nature.2
Since they are the object of serene wisdom, all phenomena are peace. And why are they the object of serene wisdom? The statement, free from arising, supplies the reason: it is because they are unarisen. Since they are unarisen, they are the object of serene wisdom. Why are they unarisen? As stated, there is utter transcendence of any real nature. If something has an inherent existent nature and this then were to arise, that nature would not then be existing, and what is there then that arises? Thus it is taught that there cannot at any point be arising: what did not occur before cannot then occur later, and what occurs later cannot then transform again. So what then is there? The utter transcendence of any real nature. The word primordial is used to show that it is not the case that these are only unarisen in relation to yogic wisdom. What is then being shown? That also prior to that, in the context of worldly conventions, these are in and of themselves unarisen. Primordial is a synonym for at the start, and should be understood to apply to the context of worldly conventional reality. And thus it was that the bodhisattva noble Sarvanivaraṇa Viṣkambhin gave praise to the Illustrious One expressing his excellent qualities with the words, ‘When turning the Wheel of Dharma you teach that all phenomena ….’