The Central Conception of Buddhism and the Meaning of the Word "Dharma" c19.s2.61

c19.s2.61

*Sautrāntika.*—These words (do not mean that non-existence cannot be an object of cognition, but they) have the following meaning:—"there are other, manifestly deluded, persons (who have not yet attained the divine power of vision: they) perceive things that never did exist. I perceive only existing (remote) things." If, on the contrary, every possible thought had only existing things for its object, what reason could there have been for doubting (the accuracy of the assertion of such people about what they were perceiving by their power of divine vision)? or what would have been the difference (between the *bodhisattva*'s real power of vision and the incomplete power of these men)?