The Blessed One said, “Subhūti, if no consciousness with the object ‘physical forms’ arises, then in this way physical forms are not being seen. Likewise, Subhūti, if no consciousness with the object ‘feelings,’ ‘conceptions,’ ‘conditioning factors,’ or ‘consciousness’ arises, then in this way feelings, conceptions, conditioning factors, and consciousness are not being seen. And, Subhūti, when physical forms, feelings, conceptions, conditioning factors, and consciousness are not being seen, it is precisely the world being seen, since, Subhūti, the Tathāgata has seen the world in this way. Thus, indeed, Subhūti, is the transcendent state of wisdom showing this world to the worthy, perfectly and completely awakened tathāgatas. But, how could the transcendent state of wisdom show the world? It indicates the world to be an ‘empty world.’ It causes the world to be discerned in this way and shows it in this way. Through the purity of the world, it indicates the world to be an ‘inconceivable world,’ a ‘null world,’ a ‘void world.’ It causes the world to be discerned in this way and shows it in this way.”
This ends the chapter “Showing the World,” the twelfth chapter in “The Noble Transcendent State of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines.”