Seeing Truly, as It Is

'Now, what do you think, O Subhûti, should a Tathâgata be seen (known) by the possession of signs?'

Subhûti said: 'Not indeed, O Bhagavat, a Tathâgata is not to be seen (known) by the possession of signs.

And why?

Because what has been preached by the Tathâgata as the possession of signs, that is indeed the possession of no-signs.'

After this, Bhagavat spoke thus to the venerable Subhûti: 'Wherever there is, O Subhûti, the possession of signs, there is falsehood; wherever there is no possession of signs, there is no falsehood.

Hence the Tathâgata is to be seen (known) from no-signs as signs.'