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

If you are what you grasp,
You would not be here.
For what you grasp come and goes;
It cannot be you.
How can the grasped be the grasper?

Nagarjuna

from Verses from the Center
by Stephen Batchelor