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1: It is unreasonable to think
That the self-nature lies in the conditions.
A self-nature that is born from conditions
Would be something that is made.
2: It does not make sense to say
That the self-nature is something made.
The nature of something is not made.
3: If phenomena do not have a self-nature
There cannot be an other-nature.
The self-nature of this thing
Is other-nature of another thing.
4: Without self-nature and other-nature
How can we have phenomena?
Only with self- and other-nature
Can dharmas be possible.
5: When there is no possibility of being
How can non-being be possible?
Only when there is being
Can it end and become non-being.
6: Someone who talks about being and non-being
Sees self-nature and other-nature
And that person is not able to see
The true meaning of the Buddhadharma.
7: Buddha extinguishes being and non-being.
In the teachings given to Katyayana.
He gave instructions on how
To go beyond being and non-being.
8: If objects of mind have an original nature
They cannot become non-being.
It is not reasonable to say
That original nature could change and become something else.
9: If objects of mind have an original nature
How can they change?
If they have no original nature
How can they change?
10: To talk about being is to be caught in eternalism
To talk about non-being is to be caught in annihilation.
Therefore the wise person
Is not caught in being or non-being.
11: If objects of mind have a self-nature
And are not non-being that is eternalism
If they exist to begin with and later do not exist
That is annihilation.
~Mulamadhyamakakarika of Nagarjuna, ch. 15
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