འཕགས་པ་སྲད་པ་འཕ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.21
The Sūtra on Transmigration Through Existences intro.21
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The present a śūnyavāda interpretation of the two truths. The relative truth refers to conventional appearances, as in verse five when “one who observes correctly” says “The eye sees forms.” From the perspective of the ultimate truth there is only the nature of emptiness, all phenomena existing dependently, or, according to the statement in verse six, “seeing comes from a conjunction.”²¹ Finally, verse seven points out the “supreme truth” that “The eye does not see form / And the mind does not know phenomena,” meaning that the conceptual notion of the two truths is itself provisional.