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don dam pa ngo bo nyid med pa

Comment: This is one of the three non-natures: character-non-nature (mtshan nyid ngo bo nyid med pa, utpattiniHsvabhAvatA); production-non-nature (skye ba ngo bo nyid med pa, utpattiniHsvabhAvatA); ultimate-non-nature (don dam pa ngo bo nyid med pa, paramArthaniHsvabhAvatA).\n "Ultimate-non-nature" has two meanings. The first meaning refers to thoroughly established natures, which are the actual ultimate-non-nature since they are both (1) the ultimate as the object of observation by a path of purification and (2) the very non-nature, that is, the absence of the opposite of emptiness in phenomena. The second meaning refers to fact that other-powered natures are not the ultimate; just as other-powered natures are natureless in terms of (self-)production, so they are natureless in terms of the ultimate — that is to say, they lack being that nature which is the ultimate. Thus, thoroughly established natures are "ultimate-non-natures," and other-powered natures are also "ultimate-non-natures" but for different reasons--the first is the ultimate and the second is not.

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