This body, this mind—a phantom creation it is;
And in phantom transformation there are neither sins nor merits.[4.11]
When the Buddha belonging to the present age ordered Mahākāśyapa to be the orthodox transmitter of the Good Law, he uttered the following verse:
“The Dharma is ultimately a dharma which is no-dharma;
A dharma which is no-dharma is also a dharma:
As I now hand this no-dharma over to thee,
What we call the Dharma, the Dharma—where after all is the
The sixth patriarch Dhṛtaka has:
“Penetrate into the ultimate truth of mind,