Because confusion is the cause of this conventional designation despite such thing existing, yogis do not apprehend anything whatsoever, and not apprehending eyes and so forth will neither have any grasping towards them. And as yogis apprehend nothing possessing inherent reality, they are liberated from cyclic existence. As stated:
When the ideas of ‘I’ and ‘mine’
Whether inner or outer cease,
Grasping is halted, and as that ends
There ceases to be further births.1
But how is it that ownership cannot occur without a self? To explain this it was stated:
Without a maker there is nothing made,
And thus without an ‘I’ there is no ‘mine.’
And with the view that ‘I’ and ‘mine’ are void,
It’s liberation that the yogis reach. (6.165)
Just as without a potter there a pot cannot come to be, without an ‘I’ there can be no ‘mine.’ Therefore, as they do not apprehend ‘I’ and ‘mine,’ yogis have no cyclic perception and reach liberation. Without apprehending forms and so forth, attachment and other emotional involvement with these will not occur, and by this hearers and solitary buddhas are established in transcendence without any further existences. Bodhisattvas however, although they have seen selflessness, will out of compassion maintain their link with existence until awakening. Wise individuals should therefore examine this presentation of selflessness well.
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Chapter 1: Pramuditā
