SmartStumblers

“All philosophies are mental fabrications.
There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
All the dogmatists have been terrified by the lion’s roar of shunyata.
Wherever they may reside, shunyata lies in wait.”

DumbStumblers

12. By a misperception of emptiness
A person of little intelligence is destroyed.
Like a snake incorrectly seized
Or like a spell incorrectly cast.

13. 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.

14. Whatever is dependently co-arisen
That is explained to be emptiness.
That, being a dependent designation,
Is itself the middle way.

15. Something that is not dependently arisen,
Such a thing does not exist.
Therefore a nonempty thing
Does not exist.

16. For him to whom emptiness is clear,
Everything becomes clear.
For him to whom emptiness is not clear,
Nothing becomes clear.

Mulamadhyamakakarika by Nagarjuna

Well, now we’re getting somewhere
but without going someplace.