The Central Conception of Buddhism and the Meaning of the Word "Dharma" c19.s2.62

c19.s2.62

It is inevitable that we should understand the passage in this sense, because it is confirmed by another scriptural passage, which begins with the words: "come unto me, ye monks, my pupils!" and goes on until the following words are spoken: "what I am telling him in the morning becomes clearer at night; what I am conversing about at night becomes clearer to him next morning. He will cognize the existence of what does exist, the non-existence of what does not exist. Where something still higher exists, he will know that there is something still higher; and where nothing higher exists, he will know that (it is the Final Deliverance, that) there is nothing higher than that!" Therefore the argument (in favour of a real existence of the past, that you have drawn from the supposed fact that) our intellect can have only existent things for its object—this argument is wrong.