Twentieth This seems to contradict Nagarjuna’s statement that all phenomena are dependent-arisings, but Döl-bo-ba explains that it does not, first by showing that the ultimate is necessarily not impermanent and deceptive and then by indicating that Nāgārjuna’s reference is to all conventional phenomena, the noumenon. The mutuality of dependent-arising and emptiness has to be to self-emptiness, not other-emptiness.  The ultimate is other than lowly conventionalities, their otherness eliminating the possibility that the two truths are un-differentiable. Rather, an ultimate truth is not a conventional truth, and a conventional truth is not an ultimate truth. The two truths are different and are also not the same entity.  Hence, the two truths are neither one nor one entity. They are different, though not different entities, since that they are different merely means that they are not the same entity. Furthermore, though the two truths are different, their difference is not that conventionalities are appearances and their emptinesses are ultimate truths, since the ultimate also appears to pristine wisdom and since conventionalities are self-emptinesses.  Since the ultimate, although without the phenomena of cyclic existence, is replete with beneficial qualities, it is not a mere absence. In the Ocean of Definitive Meaning, Döl-bo-ba identifies the ultimate nine times as an affirming negative, something that indicates a positive in place of the negation; for instance: Similarly, those who assert that in the mode of subsistence, except for exclusions and non-affirming negatives, there are not at all any inclusions, positives, and affirming negatives are extremely mistaken because I have repeatedly explained and will explain that:  Natural exclusion, negation, and abandonment are complete in the mode of subsistence, since all flaws are naturally non-existent and non-established in the mode of subsistence. Natural realizations of the inclusionary, the positive, and affirming negatives are primordially complete [in the mode of subsistence], since all nominal qualities are naturally complete in their basis.  and because the master, the great scholar Jinaputra’s commentary on the Praise of the Three Jewels by the master Mātṛcheța also says: Therefore, the negative term “does nor

Seventh  “Forms and so forth. Why? Because of being the phenomena of apprehended-object and apprehending-subject.” This clears away the assertion by some that the meaning of being pure is to be empty of its respective entity because although all phenomena of apprehended-object and apprehending-subject, which have a nature of the two obstructions, are empty of their own respective entities, they are not pure. Consequently, with good differentiation to realise being and not being primordially naturally pure, it is necessary to realise the difference between the matrix-of-one-gone-to-bliss and adventitious defilements, and it is also necessary to realise well their modes of being empty. Though the noumenal versions of the six perfections and so forth abide without difference in buddhas and sentient beings, their attainment or non-attainment is due to having separated or not having separated from adventitious defilements upon having stopped or not having stopped the winds of the twelve time-cycles . The bifurcation of ultimate and conventional factors is clear.  In this way, the forms and so forth of the ultimate matrix-of-one-gone-to-bliss-attained through ceasing the continuum of the forms, and so forth, of adventitious defilements, which have an essence of impermanence, misery, emptiness, selflessness, impurity, ignorance, and so forth-are other than external and internal conventionalities. They are said to be essences of Vrasattva and Vajrapadma, vajra semen and particles, vajra moon and sun, vajra knower and known, vajra vowels and consonants, and so forth essences of the syllables exam, which is the primordially un differentiable mixture into one taste of the five immutable great emptinesses and the six immutable empty drops.

Thirteenth   Rather, the emptiness that is the [ultimate] nature of non-entities [that is, emptiness that is the ultimate nature opposite from non-entities] is required. Also, Vasubandhu’s Commentary on the “Extensive Mother,” the “Twenty-five Thousand Stanza Perfection of Wisdom Sutra,” and “Eighteen Thousand Stanza Perfection of Wisdom Sutra”calls the ultimate nature that is empty of adventitious imputations conventionalities and is opposite from conventionalities the nature of non-entities, and thereupon says that this is also the perfection of wisdom of the un-differentiable entity of basis and fruit. From this also, it is established that the profound emptiness that is a synonym of the ultimate noumenon is other-emptiness. Döl-bo-ba handles the many statements such as that (363): The element of attributes is empty of the element of attributes. Thusness is empty of thusness. The limit of reality is empty of the limit of reality. The inconceivable basic element is empty of the inconceivable basic element.by holding that they require interpretation, their purpose being to quiet conceptualization of the element of attributes and so forth as this or that. In this way the element of attributes is not empty of the element of attrib- utes. Since meditation on self-emptiness is not sufficient, he must handle the many statements that afflictive emotions are overcome through meditating on self-emptiness, such as  Objection: Aryadeva’s Lamp Compendium for Practice states: All ones-gone-thus possessing an essence of compassion seeing all sentient beings fallen into a whirlpool of suffering, without refuge, and without defender-cause those beings to purify afflictive emotions through thorough knowledge of the nature of afflictive emotions in a conventional manner, and cause them to be thoroughly set in meditative stabilisation having an essence of the mode of reality through having cleansed conventional truth also by means of ultimate truth.  and so forth. Does this not say that the entities of afflictive emotions are purified through knowledge itself that they are self-empty?  Answer: This is in consideration of temporarily suppressing or reducing the pointedness of coarse afflictive emotions because even.

Eleventh  He says that “subjects that cannot withstand analysis and finally disintegrate are empty of their own entities.” Self-empty phenomena do not appear to wisdom of reality, since they do not exist in the mode of subsistence. Conventional phenomena only provisionally exist in that they exist only for   consciousness, which is necessarily mistaken, and thus what appears to pristine wisdom does not appear to consciousness and what appears to consciousness does not appear to pristine wisdom. Hence, conventional phenomena do not appear to buddhas; even conventional buddha-qualities of body, speech, and mind do not appear to a buddha, being only for the sake of trainees to whom they appear.  Nevertheless, buddhas are omniscient, since they implicitly know the phenomena of cyclic existence, for when they explicitly know the ultimate, they implicitly know that these conventional phenomena do not exist. As he says: These three realms, which are appearances of ignorance, do not appear to the pristine wisdom of one awakened from the sleep of ignorance because these three realms are appearances of consciousness and whatever is consciousness is ignorance. The spheres of wisdom and consciousness are separate. Döl-bo-ba argues that if emptiness were only self-emptiness, then since self-emptiness would be thusness (the ultimate), all phenomena that are self-empty (and thus are self-emptiness) would themselves absurdly be thusness. He rubs in the point by elaborating that all of the following would absurdly be the ultimate. those with perverse attachment adventitious things changing into something else and again into something thing else.