neither same nor different

You are not the same as or different from
Conditions on which you depend;
You are neither severed from
Nor forever fused with them –
This is the deathless teaching
Of buddhas who care for the world.

Nagarjuna

from Verses from the Center
by Stephen Batchelor

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