Ponder

This morning I’m pondering this paragraph p.113 in Buddha Nature by Sallie King:

However, rather than being a negation of such basic Buddhist thought, this sort of language is the logical extension of it. The prajñaparamita literature, for example, says that all dharmas, or things, are "unborn." In prajñā thought, all things are unborn because there is no own-nature (svabhava) to be born or to die. It is by virtue of the dynamics of sunya (based on the principle of pratityasamutpada) that this qualifier "unborn" is logically necessi-tated. The theory of pratityasamutpada indicates that all things come into existence (are "born") due to causes and conditions, and yet, by virtue of that very principle, everything is said to be empty of own-nature (insofar as they are dependent), hence unreal (not truly existent as independent entities), hence incapable of birth and death or for that matter of not being born and not dying. Thus, the meaning of unborn is "unrelated to the dualism of birth and no-birth"; it is necessitated by every step of pratityasamutpada-sunya thought.