Great Nagarjuna Quotes

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Selections of what I like from his Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Wisdom

of the Middle Way), translated by Jay L. Garfield. I love these!

 

 

Chapter 16 - Examination of Bondage

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6.

If grasping were bondage,

Then the one who is grasping would not be bound.

But one who is not grasping is not bound.

In what circumstances will one be bound?

 

9.

"I, without grasping, will pass beyond sorrow,

And I will attain nirvana," one says.

Whoever grasps like this

Has a great grasping.

 

 

Chapter 25 - Examination of Nirvana

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19.

There is not the slightest difference

Between cyclic existence and nirvana.

There is not the slightest difference

Between nirvana and cyclic existence.

 

 

Chapter 27 - Examination of Views

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8.

The victorious ones have said

That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.

For whomever emptiness is a view,

That one has accomplished nothing.