Neither ceasing nor arising, neither annihilated nor eternal, neither one nor many, neither coming nor going.

What is dependently originated, that we declare to be emptiness. It is a dependent designation; it is itself the middle way.

Emptiness is declared by the Buddhas to be the exit from all views. But those who hold emptiness as a view are called incurable.

Emptiness wrongly grasped destroys the slow-witted, like a snake wrongly seized or a spell wrongly cast.

For whom emptiness works, everything works. For whom emptiness does not work, nothing works.

For thinking and Being are the same.

-- Parmenides

You must learn all things: both the steadfast heart of well-rounded Truth and the opinions of mortals, in which there is no true trust.

-- Parmenides

Imagine prisoners chained underground since childhood, seeing only shadows on a wall and taking them for reality.

-- Plato

I know that I know nothing.

-- Socrates

Color exists by convention, sweet by convention, bitter by convention; in reality there are only atoms and void.

-- Democritus

Neither ceasing nor arising, neither annihilated nor eternal, neither one nor many, neither coming nor going.

-- Nagarjuna