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།གཞན་ཡང་སྣང་བས་ཡོད་མཐའ་སེལ་བ་དང༌། །སྟོང་པས་མེད་མཐའ་སེལ་ཞིང་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད། །རྒྱུ་དང་འབྲས་བུར་འཆར་བའི་ཚུལ་ཤེས་ན། །མཐར་འཛིན་ལྟ་བས་འཕྲོག་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ། [ZR] Furthermore, appearance eliminates the extreme of existence If you realize how emptiness manifests in the manner of cause and effect [AP] When you know that appearances dispel the extreme of existence, While the extreme of nothingness is eliminated by emptiness, And you also come to know how emptiness arises as cause and effect, Then you will be immune to any view entailing clinging to extremes. [GW] Appearances clear away the extreme of existence; Voidness clears away the extreme of non-existence. [US] If one knows how there appears as cause-and-fruit Emptiness – clearing the negative extreme with the empty And the positive extreme with the apparent – moreover, He will not fall prey to views that hold to an extreme. [RT] Further, while appearance eliminates absolutism, Emptiness eliminates nihilism, And you know emptiness manifest as cause and effect - Then, you will not be deprived by extremist views. |