Nāgārjuna > Quotes

“Just as it is known
That an image of one's face is seen
Depending on a mirror
But does not really exist as a face,
So the conception of "I" exists
Dependent on mind and body,
But like the image of a face
The "I" does not at all exist as its own reality.”
― Nagarjuna

“All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.”
― Nagarjuna

“Since all is empty, all is possible.”
― Nagarjuna

“Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.”
― Nagarjuna

“I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.
This frightens all children,
And kills fear in the wise.”
― Nāgārjuna

“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

“the whole world is cause and effect; excluding this, there is no sentient being. from factors which are empty, empty factors originate.

those who impute origination to even very subtle entities are unwise and have not seen the meaning of conditioned origination.

there is nothing to be denied and nothing to be affirmed. see the real correctly, for he who sees the real correctly is released”
― nagarjuna

“All philosophies are mental fabrications.”
― Nagarjuna Erik Hoogcarspel

“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

“Learn to distinguish what should be done and what not; The clever soul will always select his opportunity.”
― Nāgārjuna

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

“All the dogmatists have been terrified by the lion’s roar of shunyata. Wherever they may reside, shunyata lies in wait!
Nagarjuna: Master of Wisdom: Writitngs of the Buddhist Mastar Nagarjuna”
― Nāgārjuna

“if wanderers were not themselves the cause, then like the scent and color
of the lotus in the sky, there would be no perception of the universe.”
― Nāgārjuna

“if an astronomer calculates from the sky
he will ascertain the paths of the moon and the stars;
but in his house the womenfolk are at variance,
and he does not perceive their various misconduct.”
― nagarjuna

“The pacification of all cognitive grasping and the pacification of conceptual proliferation are peace.”
― Nāgārjuna

“With all its many risks, this life endures
No more than windblown bubbles in a stream.
How marvelous to breathe in and out again,
To fall asleep and then awake refreshed.”
― Nāgārjuna, Nagarjuna's Letter To A Friend: With Commentary By Kangyur Rinpoche

“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

“To whomever emptiness is possible,
All things are possible.”
― Nāgārjuna

“Entities do not exist In their causes, in their conditions In aggregations of many things, or in individual things Therefore, all entities are empty.”
― Nāgārjuna

“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

“Porque todo es vacuidad, todo puede ser.”
― Nāgārjuna

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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