The History of Buddhist Thought c25.51

c25.51

The true Mahāyāna doctrine according to this sūtra is, “ he who looks upon all compounds as not arisen has understood pain. He who looks upon all things as unoriginated has abandoned the cause of pain. He who looks upon all things as utterly extinguished has realized its cessation. He who looks upon all things as utterly void has practised the Way. He who thus looks upon the four noble Truths forms no idea or notion that ‘ these things are good, those things are bad, these things are to be abandoned, those things are to be realized, pain is to be understood, its origin is to be abandoned, its cessation is to be realized, the Way is to be practised.’ And why ? Because there is no thing which he imagines as real ; fools and common people do so, and thus they feel passion, hatred, and delusion. He neither accepts or denies any *dharma* (thing), and thus his mind clings to nothing in the three worlds. He looks upon the whole three worlds as unborn."