Measure of the object of negation (Svatantrika)
བློ་གནོད་མེད་ལ་སྣང་བའི་དབང་གིས་བཞག་པའི་ཡོད་པ་ཙམ་དེ། ཀུན་རྫོབ་ཏུ་ཡོད་པའི་དོན་ཡིན།
Meaning of existing conventionally: Mere existence that is posited through the force of appearing to a non-faulty awareness.
བློ་ལ་སྣང་བའི་དབང་གིས་བཞག་པ་མ་ཡིན་པར་ཡུལ་རང་གི་སྡོད་ལུགས་ཀྱི་ངོས་ནས་གྲུབ་པ།
Meaning of truly established (བདེན་པར་གྲུབ་པ།) / ultimately established (དོན་དམ་པར་གྲུབ་པ།) / established in reality
(ཡང་དག་པར་གྲུབ་པ།) / established in suchness (དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་དུ་གྲུབ་པ།) / established as basic character (གཤིས་ལུགས་སུ་གྲུབ་པ།): Being established from the side of the object's mode of abiding without being posited through the force of appearing to an awareness.
དེ་རྣམས་སུ་གྲུབ་པར་འཛིན་པའི་བློ་བདེན་འཛིན་དུ་བསྟན།
The awareness apprehending establishment as those is indicated to be the apprehension of true existence.
Two ways of explaining not existing ultimately
For both Svatantrika schools:
- The object of negation (true establishment) only appears to conceptual consciousnesses and not to sense consciousnesses.
- As such, the previous are affected by ignorance and its imprints whereas the latter are not.
- J.Shepa explains that this is posited only in terms of the first way of existing ultimately because:
- Conceiving of (conventional) objects as existing from the perspective of a reasoning consciousness analysing the ultimate is an acquired conception and thus its related appearance of true establishment would not appear to non-conceptual consciousnesses.
- Changyka refutes this.
Example of the magical illusion
Discussion about non-faulty awareness
Up a level: Object of negation