The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. For whomever emptiness is a view, that one will accomplish nothing.

Nagarjuna

Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Chapter 13, verse 8

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


translated by Jay L. Garfield


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