Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c21.s2.35

c21.s2.35

The Vijñānavāda then makes an objection to the Madhyamaka position; granted that consciousness is unreal, how does the Madhyamaka arrive at the cessation of illusion and passion? the magician falls in love with the phantom of his creation. The answer is that the magician has not deprived himself of the tendency to regard things as existent; his knowledge of the unreality of his creation is inefficacious to destroy the natural emergence of passion. But, if one contemplates the void, one rids oneself first of the delusion of existence, and thereafter even of the delusion of non-existence and the end is reached.