Neither from itself nor from another,
Nor from both,
Nor without a cause,
Does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

Nagarjuna

from the book The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika

translated by Jay L. Garfield


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Further quotes from the book The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way:

• Whatever is dependently arisen
• Examination of Time
• Deep and difficult to understand
• Two truths
• The relinquishing of all views