The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way Quotes

“The victorious ones have said
That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.
For whomever emptiness is a view,
That one has achieved nothing.”
― Nāgārjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

“Whatever is dependently co-arisen
That is explained to be emptiness.
That, being a dependent designation
Is itself the Middle Way.”
― Nāgārjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

“Without recourse to the conventional
The ultimate cannot be shown”
― Nāgārjuna, The Root Stanzas of the Middle Way: The Mulamadhyamakakarika

“Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.”
― Nāgārjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

“10. Without a foundation in the conventional truth, The significance of the ultimate cannot be taught. Without understanding the significance of the ultimate, Liberation is not achieved. 11. By a misperception of emptiness A person of little intelligence is destroyed. Like a snake incorrectly seized Or like a spell incorrectly cast. 12. For that reason—that the Dharma is Deep and difficult to understand and to learn— The Buddha’s mind despaired of Being able to teach it.”
― Nāgārjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika

“17. Error does not develop In one who is in error. Error does not develop In one who is not in error. 18. Error does not develop In one in whom error is arising. In whom does error develop? Examine this on your own!”
― Nāgārjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika

“I pay homage to Gautama who, out of compassionate mind, has taught the noble Dharma in order to relinquish all views.”
― Nagarjuna , Mulamadhyamakakarika

“Motion does not begin in what has moved, nor does it begin in what has not moved, nor does it begin in what is moving. In what, then, does motion begin?”
― Nāgārjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

“El ser humano se encuentra cegado por la ignorancia y encadenado por la sed”
― Nāgārjuna, Fundamentos de la vía media

“Only in the context of emptiness—what might appear to be the greatest threat to meaningfulness—can a meaningful life be understood.”
― Jay L. Garfield (Translator), The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

“This is the overall conclusion for which Nāgārjuna will argue in this chapter: that existents do not come into existence as the result of causes and conditions. There are four possible ways in which this might be thought to happen, and he rejects all of them.”
― Mark Siderits, Nagarjuna's Middle Way: Mulamadhyamakakarika

“The essence of entities Is not present in the conditions, etc …. If there is no essence, There can be no otherness-essence.”
― Nāgārjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika

“There are four conditions: efficient condition; Percept-object condition; immediate condition; Dominant condition, just so. There is no fifth condition.”
― Nāgārjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika

“I prostrate to the Perfect Buddha,
The best of teachers, who taught that
Whatever is dependently arisen is
Unceasing, unborn,
Unannihilated, not permanent,
Not coming, not going,
Without distinction, without identity,
And free from conceptual construction.”
― Nāgārjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika

“Inasmuch a real mover does not move, and a non-mover does not move, apart from a mover and a non-mover, what third thing could move?”
― Nāgārjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā