No Cutting Off, No Annihilation

'What do you think then, O Subhûti, has the highest perfect knowledge been known by the Tathâgata through the possession of signs?

You should not think so, O Subhûti.

And why?

Because, O Subhûti, the highest perfect knowledge would not be known by the Tathâgata through the possession of signs.

Nor should anybody, O Subhûti, say to you that the destruction or annihilation of any thing is proclaimed by those who have entered on the path of the Bodhisattvas.'