Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 3

Rinpoche begins with the purpose of studying Madhyamaka: to see the truth, and to free oneself from not seeing it. He explains nirvana as release from that bondage, separates direct perception from inference, and says that a truth in Nagarjuna’s sense would have to be unfabricated and independent. A dreamt elephant that was never there carries the argument that neither samsara nor nirvana truly exists. He asks whether reaching enlightenment is a true end, using the rainbow, speaks of habit and of circumambulating a stupa as a way to work with it, and turns to stanzas against schools that hold the aggregates to be truly existent. It stops at a break.