All things exist in themselves, have integrity of their own, the grass and the little animals that move through the grass".
In Steve Bodow's hilarious 1997 Slate article "Dow te ching," one of the koans reads: "The Dow does not exist, yet all things exist within it / O.K., only 30 stocks exist within it / But it seems like a much bigger deal".
So (ii) collapses into (i), and there is some one thing through which all things exist.
The presence of intrinsic nature indicates that a dharma is a primary existent, irrespective of its temporal status, namely, whether it is a past, present or future dharma, and hence the Sarvāstivāda declaration that "all things exist".
The Sarvāstivādins ("advocates of the doctrine that all things exist") were unique in their stance that the characteristics of conditioned phenomena exist separately as real entities within each moment.
If (ii) is true, then "there is surely some one power or nature of self-existing that they have in order to exist through themselves" (M 3); in that case, "all things exist more truly through that one thing than through the several things that cannot exist without that one thing" (M 3).
