Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 5

Rinpoche acknowledges that the root text is hard going, then restates that the stanzas aim at the root of suffering, fixation on things as truly existent. He describes meditation as leaving things alone, says the path is the finger and not the moon, and sets out the two truths following a commentary by a disciple of Tsongkhapa. The stanzas on whether enlightenment ends samsara lead to dependent arising as non-arising, shown by a mirror and by a magic show watched by an audience, a magician and a sweet seller who never noticed it. He ends on why the Buddha taught impermanence at all, comparing it to a rattle that draws a baby from a cliff edge.