What is the Patient Acceptance of the Non-Arising of Dharmas?

The patience with the non-arising of dharmas (anutpattika-dharma-kṣānti) is the wisdom that arises when a bodhisattva, after seeing the mind and seeing self-nature, cultivates to the stage of a first-bhūmi bodhisattva and realizes the path of seeing. At the moment of first seeing the mind, one attains the patience with non-arising: the tathāgatagarbha neither arises nor ceases and has never been born, while the five aggregates of body and mind are illusorily manifested by the tathāgatagarbha — there is arising on the level of appearances, but in reality there is non-arising.

When one cultivates to the first bhūmi, one obtains the wisdom of the patience with the non-arising of dharmas: not only are the five aggregates non-arising and the tathāgatagarbha non-arising, but everything in the world is non-arising. This wisdom is extremely vast and is called the wisdom of the seeds of consciousness-only (yogācāra seed-wisdom). All dharmas in the world, all marks, are produced by the tathāgatagarbha and have no self-nature of their own; there is arising on the level of appearances, but in essence there is non-arising — all possess the nature of the tathāgatagarbha, just as all gold ornaments possess the nature of gold.