>>512318518
>karma is not the Self.
correct

>but you still have to desire to gain understanding.
that's like saying you have to desire going to work to start your car, or that you want to start your car to turn the key. things function without desire. pic related is literally you. it's the best you've got. embarrassing.

>circular reasoning
it teaches both the relative and the absolute simultaneously, the world of separation and the world of no separation.
emptiness is only half of the doctrine of nonduality.