How to Eradicate the Imputed Nature of the Manas

To eradicate the manas's imputed nature (parikalpita-svabhāva), one should first clearly understand why the manas possesses this imputed nature. Because the manas does not understand the true reality of the dharmadhātu, nor the true substance of all dharmas, it mistakenly grasps all dharmas as real, as self, and as belonging to self, universally deliberating upon and clinging to all dharmas. If the true substance of all dharmas can be revealed, and the manas comes to clearly understand the true reality of all dharmas, then what would He still have to cling to or fuss over? The imputed nature will thus gradually be eliminated, and in this way the fundamental problem is resolved. If the manas does not realize the dharmas and does not understand their true substance, how could He eradicate ignorance and exhaust the imputed nature? All the dharmas that the mind consciousness cultivates through permeation, all the dharmas it understands and realizes, have as their fundamental purpose the realization of these dharmas by the manas, so as to eradicate the manas's ignorance; only then can one change and turn the situation around, attaining ultimate liberation.