Āryadeva | 400 verses | Madhyamaka

*/ 400 Verses on the Middle Path by Āryadeva c. 3 rd century Part 12 | of 16 Indicating the Meditations for Refuting (Attraction to Distorted) Views (1) A listener who is upright and unbiased, has common sense (discrimination) and takes keen interest is described as being a proper vessel (for these voidness teachings. To the mind of such a

*/ 400 Verses on the Middle Path by Āryadeva c. 3 rd century Part 13 | of 16 The Meditations for Refuting (Truly Existent) Cognitive Sensors and Cognitive Objects (1) You do not see absolutely everything about a vase (all its sensory qualities and parts) at the time when you see (its) form. Who would state “ (because) the vase

*/ 400 Verses on the Middle Path by Āryadeva c. 3 rd century Part 14 | of 16 Indicating the Meditations for Refuting Grasping at Extremes (1) Any functional phenomenon (having true existence) could not have come about from having relied on something else. (Furthermore, upon ultimate analysis,) its (independently existing) nature should be established (by itself alone). But nothing

*/ 400 Verses on the Middle Path by Āryadeva c. 3 rd century Part 15 | of 16 Indicating the Meditations for Refuting Collected Phenomena as Ultimately (Truly Arising) (1) If at the last (moment of the cause, the result is truly) non-existent and then it comes to arise (as truly existent, this is unreasonable, because then even a rabbit’s

*/ 400 Verses on the Middle Path by Āryadeva c. 3 rd century Part 16 | of 16 Indicating the Meditations for How to Cause Teachers and Disciples to Gain Certainty (about Voidness) (1) All these chapters have been to refute individually any reasons (that may be given why), although (everything is) void (of true existence, others grasp at them)

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