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Naturally, we would not know what the teaching of the Buddha was if we had had no communication in words--words were very much needed--but when there is no correspondence between words and meaning the teaching itself will lose its sense. The Lankavatara thus reiterates throughout the text that the Tathagata never teaches the Dharma fallen into mere talk.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 5 : Semantics > # 43