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but ultimately it is not like that.’

“Mahābrahmā, childlike, ordinary beings who have not attained the world-transcending wisdom eyes of the āryas do not know the inexpressible nature of phenomena. Therefore, however they examine what they see or hear, whether composite or noncomposite phenomena, they become attached to it as real, and they are unable to know the ultimate, inexpressible true nature of phenomena.

“Whatever the āryas see or hear, and whatever the power and activity of the composite and noncomposite phenomena may be, they do not become attached to them as real. The composite phenomena are not real and the noncomposite phenomena are not real. They are simply characteristics and names of the composite and noncomposite as a result of an examination of them by invalid thought. They have no real nature, but the āryas teach that true meaning by relying on relative terminology.

“In the same way, Mahābrahmā, the āryas see, with their superior knowledge and superior vision, the inexpressible true nature of phenomena, and they see the composite and noncomposite phenomena in the same way. Yet, on the relative level, they teach others by relying on various names and terms.”

Then Mahābrahmā asked the bodhisattva Ratnārcī, “How many beings are able to realize and know this kind of profound Dharma?”

“Mahābrahmā,” replied Ratnārcī, “this profound Dharma is known by the minds and mental events of numerous illusory beings. That is how many.”

“Those illusory beings are nonexistent by nature,” said Brahmarāja, “so from where do their minds and mental events arise?”