The mind is by nature uncompounded and free from all imputed and dependent phenomena. This is called non-conceptual awareness free from duality. Within the Chittamatra school one distinguishes between the followers of the true aspect and the followers of the deceptive aspect according to their respective assertion as to whether outer phenomena are perceived by the perceiving mind as they truly are or not. That means this viewpoint is not even in the middle between the two extremes of existentialism and nihilism. It lies beyond all fixed reference points.
Phenomena are beyond all pairs of opposites.
Flawless realization of relative truth means to realize that all phenomena are without any true substance. Even though they appear, they are like the reflection of the moon on water. Flawless realization of absolute truth is the state of mind free from all mental fabrications, the natural state in which it is recognized that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence. In this way the base of the Madhyamaka viewpoint is the inseparability of the two truths, the relative and the absolute. One progresses on the path through the practice of the inseparability of the two accumulations - merit and wisdom.