English
"Without combination or separation" is its synonym. Sharadvatiputra, furthermore, when a Bodhisattva Mahasattva practices the Prajnaparamita, from "not combining or separating form with all-knowingness" to "how could there be combining or separating all-knowingness with Bodhi," it shows not combining or separating conditioned and unconditioned dharmas with all-knowingness. Because form and other dharmas, and all-knowingness, are not established as truly existent in the ultimate sense, form and other dharmas are the objects to be known by the wisdom of all-knowingness. All-knowingness is the knower, and the thought that this is the object and the knower as real entities should be abandoned. If these forms and others are completely dedicated to objects of merit such as generosity, they will become the cause of attaining all-knowingness. Through this kind of conceptualization, the conceptualization that exists like cause and effect is abandoned. Therefore, it shows that there is no combination or separation. Practicing in this way is in accordance with practicing the Prajnaparamita. Sharadvatiputra, furthermore, when a Bodhisattva Mahasattva practices the Prajnaparamita, he does not combine the statement "form is truly existent," nor does he combine the statement "form is not truly existent," and so on, up to not combining the statement "all-aspects-knowingness is truly existent," nor combining the statement "all-aspects-knowingness is not truly existent." This shows that all worldly and transcendental dharmas are not combined as truly existent and not truly existent. In the conventional sense, non-existence is established by the opposite of existence, and existence is established by the opposite of non-existence. But in the ultimate sense, since no phenomenon such as form is established, non-existence cannot be established by its opposite either. Therefore, existence and non-existence are not combined in a mutually dependent manner, that is its meaning. Sharadvatiputra, furthermore, when a Bodhisattva Mahasattva practices the Prajnaparamita,