"Emptiness is proclaimed by the victorious ones as the refutation of all viewpoints; but those who hold emptiness as a viewpoint - (the true perceivers) have called those incurable (asādhya)." —Nāgārjuna, MMK 13.8
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"...But if one believes that consciousness only really exists, this is no different from attachment to external objects, and it remains attachment to dharmas." —Xuanzang, Cheng Weishi Lun 2/2
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"Abandoning what he had embraced, abandoning self, not clinging, he doesn't make himself dependent even in connection with knowledge; doesn't follow a faction among those who are split; doesn't fall back on any view whatsoever." —Paramaṭṭhaka Sutta (Sn 4.5)
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IMO instead of “consciousness” here must be “representation-only” (vijnaptimatra). That radically changes the meaning of the whole quote, for the phenomenal representations aspect (dharmas) is only an aspect of consciousness, not consciousness in itself.
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