禅Nagarjuna

proverb

Without a Thesis of My Own

Indic

Traditionally attributed

Text

I have no thesis of my own. I take up your thesis, follow it through, and let it dissolve at its own end. Whoever calls me a teacher of nothing has heard me correctly.

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Attribution

Lineage: Indian Patriarchs

By Nagarjuna

Sources

  • contentEssays in Zen Buddhism, First Series

    D. T. Suzuki

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