Madhyamaka 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

“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

“In general, to put it mildly, we do not appreciate it when our treasured and often unconscious ways of looking at the world are brought into daylight and questioned, but this is precisely what Madhyamaka does, relentlessly and thoroughly.”
― Karl Brunnhölzl, The Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyu Tradition