The knowledge that appearances arise unfailingly in dependence,
And the knowledge that they are empty and beyond all assertions—
As long as these two appear to you as separate,
There can be no realization of the Buddha’s wisdom.

Yet when they arise at once, not each in turn but both together,
Then through merely seeing unfailing dependent origination
Certainty is born, and all modes of misapprehension fall apart—
That is when discernment of the view has reached perfection.

Lama Tsongkhapa

Three Principal Aspects of the Path

translated by Adam Pearcey


source: http://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/tsongkhapa/three-principal-aspects


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