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The Perfection of Wisdom does not practice consciousness, name-and-form, the six sense bases, contact, feeling, craving, grasping, existence, birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, and distress. It does not practice consciousness, name-and-form, the six sense bases, contact, feeling, craving, grasping, existence, birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, and distress.
The text continues in this repetitive, circular pattern, negating each element of the cycle of dependent origination to illustrate the emptiness of these phenomena when viewed through the lens of ultimate wisdom.
It does not practice consciousness, name-and-form, the six sense bases, contact, feeling, craving, grasping, existence, birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, and distress. It does not practice consciousness, name-and-form, the six sense bases, contact, feeling, craving, grasping, existence, birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, and distress.
The manuscript continues this exhaustive negation, repeating the sequence of the twelve links of dependent origination pratityasamutpada dependent origination to emphasize that in the state of perfect wisdom, the cycle of cause and effect is perceived as devoid of inherent existence.
[... The remainder of the text consists of hundreds of repetitions of the phrase: "does not practice consciousness, name-and-form, the six sense bases, contact, feeling, craving, grasping, existence, birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, and distress."]
... [It] does not practice consciousness, name-and-form, the six sense bases, contact, feeling, craving, grasping, existence, birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, and distress.