English
The great victors have said that those are impossible to accomplish. Why? Because for those who cling to the notion that things do not exist by their own nature, emptiness is called dependent arising, which indicates that things are imputed due to the power of causes and conditions. When things do not exist by their own nature, thoroughly revealing the nature of things can reverse that clinging. However, for those who cling to emptiness itself as a thing, no other means can reverse that clinging. For example, when someone says, "There is nothing," if someone says, "Please give me that nothing," how can one make him grasp the concept of "nothingness"? Therefore, even the victors who possess the ten powers and have great compassion have said that it is impossible to accomplish. For those who see emptiness as also empty, emptiness is established for them. This is called "Examination of Suchness," the thirteenth chapter. It is said: Things are not empty of their own nature, but things exist only by their own nature. Why? Because it is to show contact. Here, the Blessed One said that in that place, the meeting of form, consciousness, and the eye is contact. Sound, consciousness, and the ear, etc., are also the same. Similarly, the Blessed One said that attachment, anger, and the combination of ignorance are also combined. If things do not have self-nature, then contact is unreasonable. Like this, how can things without self-nature meet? Therefore, things exist only by their own nature. Explanation: If the contact between things is reasonable, then things would exist by their own nature. The contact between things is unreasonable, how could they exist by their own nature? For example: the object to be seen, the seeing, and the seer, these three, both in pairs and all together, cannot possibly touch each other. The object to be seen, the seeing, and the seer