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It is helpful if we understand the realization of non-duality has many levels or degrees. From the philosophical point of view there are two Indian schools of Mahayana Buddhist thought: the Cittamatra or Mind Only school and the Madhyamaka or Middle Way school with its Prasangika or Consequentialist subdivision. Both of these schools agree that the dualistic view is deceptive and therefore not ultimately true, and both assert that non-duality is the absolute nature of all things and is ultimately true. Though the Mind Only and Consequentialist schools agree on these points, their understanding of what is meant by non-duality varies somewhat. From the Consequentialist point of view the Mind Only doctrine presents a helpful approach to conventional truth but does not accurately describe the absolute true nature of reality. In other words, they state that the Mind Only view of reality is still tainted by superstitious beliefs. Despite this, even the Consequentialists agree that if we are able to realize the Mind Only view we are qualified to practice the profound methods of tantric yoga and reach unimaginably high levels of understanding. What we should know is that the Mind Only school contends that all objects of the sense world are simply manifestations of mental energy and do not exist externally at all. According to the Consequentialists it is more correct to say that the existence of all things depends upon recognition by an imputing consciousness. Both schools attach great importance to the mind’s role in determining the way in which entities arise, but the higher Consequentialist school says that to assert that there are no external phenomena whatsoever—that there is nothing other than mind—is an error. Such a view deviates from the true middle path that transcends all extremes. The Mind Only meditators destroy the dualistic view by seeing that all objects in the field of the six senses are no more than mere projections of our mind itself. All relative phenomena arise and disappear like the bubbles in a glass of Coca-Cola. In this analogy, Coca-Cola corresponds to the mind itself while the bubbles arising within it are all relative phenomena perceived by the six senses. Can the bubbles in the Coca-Cola be separated from the Coca-Cola? No. Therefore, as they are not separate, they are non-dualistic. When a deep understanding of this pervades our consciousness, the foundations of samsara are shaken. The Consequentialists transcend dualism by realizing that both subject: mind, and object: the sense field, are illusory and empty of self-existence. Subject and object are mutually interdependent: they cannot exist independently of one another. For this reason the Consequentialists do not agree with the Mind Only position that mind itself—as the source and substance out of which all relative phenomena arise—has true, inherent self-existence. According to the Consequentialists, all phenomena, including mind, are empty of even the slightest trace of self-existence.

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