Buddhist Logic v2.c19.s3.7

v2.c19.s3.7

object), since it is altogether devoid of any kind of (direct) causal efficiency.¹ (12. 19). (Nor can the empirical ² Particular, which is the meeting point of several Universals, do it. But the transcendental) Particular can. This alone is (pure reality), reality in the ultimate sense, (the thing in itself), because the essence of reality (according to the Buddhists) is just the faculty of being causally efficient. (12. 20). It is a point-instant (in time-space, it transcends empirical space and empirical time ³), it is just the thing in itself shorn of all its extensions.⁴ It is not an extended body.⁵ The ultimate reality is not a thing which is one and the same in different points of space.⁶ Nor has it duration through different instants of time. Therefore sense cognition,⁷ (sensation) apprehends the point-instant of reality,⁸ (the efficiency moment, the thing in itself, which alone ⁹ possesses the faculty of affecting our sensitivity).¹⁰