禅Nagarjuna

proverb

Emptiness Is the Medicine

Indic

Traditionally attributed

Text

If you grasp emptiness as a thing, the medicine becomes a sickness. The Buddha gave emptiness as the medicine for all views; do not let it become another view.

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Attribution

Lineage: Indian Patriarchs

By Nagarjuna

Sources

  • contentEssays in Zen Buddhism, First Series

    D. T. Suzuki

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