ABSTRACT
The Prajñāpāramitā literature Is full of paradoxical statements. At first sight, they appear to be illogical and to contradict sound reasoning. For instance, in the third paragraph of the Heart Sūtra everything is negated including the Path, Nirvāņa, and Enlightenment, but in the fifth paragraph, the former stand seems to have been reversed, for it says that all Buddhas, by relying on Prajñāpāramitā, have attained Enlightenment. The Diamond Sūtra is even more explicit in the paradoxical nature of the Prajñā truth. "The so-called good dharmas are not good dharmas. . . . Buddha says that all minds are not minds; therefore, they are minds." If we use M to represent the subjects of these statements, the form would be: https://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> M = ∼ M , ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ M https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203706732/32a42adc-735b-4ad2-b0bc-8cb90ceed674/content/math_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
