The knowledge that appearances arise unfailingly in dependence,
And the knowledge that they are empty and beyond all assertions -
As long as these two appear to you as separate,
There can be no realization of the Buddha's wisdom.

Of those things that arise from causes,
The Tathagata has taught those causes,
And also what their cessation is:
This is the doctrine of the Great Recluse.

Vast emptiness, nothing holy.

Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

We are here to awaken from the illusion of separateness.

Whatever is dependently co-arisen,
That is explained to be emptiness.
That, being a dependent designation,
Is itself the middle way.

When this is, that is.
From the arising of this comes the arising of that.
When this isn’t, that isn’t.
From the cessation of this comes the cessation of that.

It is all at ease,
Unfixatable by fixations,
Incommunicable,
Inconceivable,
Indivisible.

You are not the same as or different from
Conditions on which you depend;
You are neither severed from
Nor forever fused with them –

This is the deathless teaching
Of buddhas who care for the world.