conceptualization

from our point of view, all these ideas of the ultimate are philosophical extremes and are invalid because they are merely conceptualizations.

even though particulars do not appear in an awareness of a universal, the world engages in practical action through the error of imagining that the conceptual image is the particular.

when phenomena appear to common ordinary beings as existing, they are apprehended as existing in their own right, without being posited by virtue of the fact that they appear to the mind. this is called the innate apprehension of true existence.

all verbal elaborations are misconceptions of the mind and so one should think of phenomena as being thoughts.

mental proliferation, the apprehension of true existence, is the root of karma and the afflictions and the understanding of emptiness eliminates them, so that one, of necessity, obtains emancipation.

when the continuum is misapprehended, things are said to be permanent. when composites are misapprehended, things are said to exist.

the one who abandons craving authority and definition, never becomes one-sided argument or understanding, perceives the authentic meaning hidden in the ancient scriptures.

the universe exists in a deep, elusive way that can never be grasped or frozen. why feel obsessive desire or hatred for it, thereby creating illusory bonds? renounce arbitrary, habitual views.

if you are displeased, you have hope. if you are pleased, you have fear. if you have hope and fear, you have dualistic clinging.

one and many - rangdrol