English
The thought of the exhaustion of the Prajñāpāramitā is like wanting to exhaust the sky. This is a broad statement of exhaustion; and with words such as "In those dharmas, there is no birth," it proclaims the knowledge of non-arising. Thus, it skillfully establishes complete enlightenment, as it is said. How should one have faith in this? It is said by showing the great tongue that is worthy of speaking the truth, and by definitely combining with the noble Kunda-gawo (Ānanda) teaching the Prajñāpāramitā, and by holding them, one holds all the dharmas of the doors of dhāraṇī and samādhi, as it is said. Furthermore, how is it that the knowledge of exhaustion is of the nature of non-exhaustion, and not of the nature of the destruction of things? Because even at the time of application, it is said, "Subhuti! Because form is inexhaustible, one should realize the Prajñāpāramitā," and so on, possessing the dharma that is not mixed until the essence of enlightenment abides, and the dependent arising, like the sky, is the realization that exhaustion is unknowable, and looking at those aspects is the establishment of the wisdom of the omniscient one, and looking in that way is the meaning of clarifying the path of seeing by abandoning all grasping at self and dharma, and when the Bodhisattva acts in that way, with the example of a man whose parents have died, the demons think that they have gone beyond their realm of activity, and only have the arrow of sorrow, as it is said. Why is it that knowing a little exhaustion or non-arising in that way is not knowing exhaustion and non-arising? Therefore, it is said, "In the nature of non-cessation, with the path called seeing, what kind of discriminations are exhausted? What kind of unborn nature is attained?" This is said because if someone thinks of the destruction of things and knows that exhaustion is exhaustion, and thinks of the non-arising of future things and says that knowing non-arising is non-arising, then one should ask them, what kind of things are exhausted here, or what is attained in the unborn? Therefore, it is said, "Other dharmas are also all there, and they also show what is to be known, whoever says that obscurations are exhausted, I am amazed at that." Thus it is said. Therefore, in this