Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 7

Rinpoche answers the question of how an illusory path can end an illusory samsara. He separates establishing the view through hearing and contemplation from applying it, quotes a dedication prayer that calls merit, beings and enlightenment illusory, and tells of a bodhisattva ready to quit with two of three countless eons of work still ahead. The four truths, with a headache as the example, show that the problem is not what you are and that path and problem exhaust together, like a knife and whetstone. He reads stanzas leading from impermanence to selflessness and describes the stage where idle conversation loses its appeal, before a break.