"Two other "causes and conditions" of the eternity of the trikaya do not seem to speak essentially in terms of soteriological practice and action. These are the fifth, which speaks of nonduality, and the tenth, which is concerned with nontemporality. The nonduality of samsara and nirvana is due to their mutual emptiness. Therefore, eternity is not grounded here in a substantive metaphysical entity but in its contrary, the absence of such an entity, the emptiness of any attribute posited for either. Nondualistic wisdom is able to realize the nondistinction between the two and hence the Buddhas, in a sense, are able to participate simultaneously in both. In this condition, we are told, lies the Buddhas' eternity. Nondualism based on emptiness, then, is the source of eternity here."
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