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Chapter Six: Analysis of Desire and the Desirous One

If, before the presence of desire,
The desirous one exists without desire,
Based on that, there would be desire.
When the desirous one exists, so does desire. [6.1]

Yet if the desirous one does not exist,
How could there possibly be desire?
Given the presence or absence of desire,
This follows also in the case of the desirous one. [6.2]

Desire and the desirous one
Cannot reasonably arise together.
In this case, desire and the desirous one
Would not depend on one another. [6.3]

Identical things are not coexistent,
As nothing is coexistent with itself.
Yet if they are different,
How could they be coexistent? [6.4]

If a single thing were coexistent,
This would occur in isolation as well,
If the different were coexistent,
This would occur in isolation as well. [6.5]

If they are different and coexistent,
How could desire and the desirous one
Be established as two different things
That would then be present together? [6.6]

If desire and the desirous one
Are established as different,
Then why would you think of them
As being coexistent? [6.7]

If they are asserted to be coexistent
Because their difference lacks establishment,
Would you also assert their difference
To prove their coexistence? [6.8]

When things are not established as different,
Neither are they established as coexistent.
When there is a thing that is different,
It may be claimed that it is coexistent. [6.9]

Therefore, desire and the desirous one
Are not established as coexistent or otherwise.
As is the case with desire and the desirous one,
No phenomena are established as coexistent or otherwise. [6.10]

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