Zen for Absolute Beginners 045: Ignorance, Desire & Karma

50. Ignorance, desire, and karma they are the causes of mind and its belongings; as they evolve thus [relatively], they are [recognised] by me to be Paratantric.

51. When the field of mentation gets confused, they imagine that there is something [real] to take hold of; in this imagination there is no perfect knowledge, it is false imagination rising from delusion.

52. When bound in conditions there evolves a mind in all beings; when released from conditions, I say, I see no [mind rising],

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