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So they will never cease nor undergo any changes in the threeperiods of time.They did not come from anywhere and they did not go anywhere.They will not stay anywhere: they are like a dream and maya.A foolish person is attached to phenomena as true, and apprehendsthem as gross material phenomena,"I" and "self," whereas they are like a maya-girl who disappears whentouched.They are not true because they are deceiving and act only inappearance.The spheres of the six realms of beings and the pure lands of thebuddhas, also are not aggregations of atoms, but merely theself-appearances of beings’ minds.For example, in a dream buddhas and sentient beings appear as real,endowed with inconceivable properties.However, when one awakens, they were just a momentary object ofthe mind.In the same way should be understood all the phenomena ofsamsara and nirvana.There is no separate emptiness apart from apparent phenomena.It is like fire and heat, the qualities of fire.The notion of their distinctness is a division made by mind.Water and the moon’s reflection in water are indivisibly one in thepool.Likewise, appearances and emptiness are one in the great dharmata.

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