All dharmas are like illusions

The tathāgatagarbha illusorily manifests certain mental sense-objects, which is what is called the Image-Only Object; it then illusorily manifests the mind consciousness, which is the solitary mental consciousness. Once the mind consciousness appears with the function of discernment, it thereby knows the mental sense-objects. During this process, the mental sense-objects did not come, and the mind consciousness did not go, yet the object-image of the realm is known—this shows that all dharmas neither come nor go. The arising and ceasing of all dharmas is also an illusory appearance; therefore all dharmas neither arise nor cease.