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“Lo que está dentro soy yo, lo que está afuera es mío: cuando estos pensamientos terminan, la compulsión se detiene, la repetición cesa, la libertad amanece”
Nagarjuna
Nagarjuna fue uno de los pensadores más influyentes del budismo, considerado el fundador de la escuela filosófica Madhyamaka (la “vía media”). Vivió aproximadamente entre los siglos II y III d.C. en la India, durante el auge del budismo mahayana.
Primeros años
Se cree que Nagarjuna nació en el sur de la India, posiblemente en una familia brahmánica.
Desde joven mostró gran interés por el conocimiento religioso y filosófico. Aunque las fuentes históricas sobre su vida son limitadas y a veces legendarias, se dice que estudió ampliamente las escrituras védicas antes de convertirse al budismo.
Su formación lo llevó a integrarse en centros de aprendizaje importantes, como la región donde más tarde florecería la universidad de Nalanda, donde el pensamiento budista se desarrollaba intensamente. Durante esta etapa, Nagarjuna profundizó en las enseñanzas del budismo mahayana, especialmente en los textos conocidos como “Prajñāpāramitā” (Perfección de la sabiduría).
-Nagarjuna
Ted Lasso: All right, guys, listen up. The things in the world originate only because of their relation to other things. That means they have no essence or existence of their own. Their true nature is that they are “śūnya" or "empty”.
Coach Beard: Emptiness isn’t their true nature, either.
Ted Lasso: Say what now?
Coach Beard: Emptiness isn’t truer than the false natures of the things that are empty.
Ted Lasso: Now how the hell does that work?
Coach Beard: Emptiness did not arise independently, either. Its existence is also dependent upon its relation to other things. If there was nothing to be empty, then there would be no emptiness.
Dani Rojas [excitedly, like a little kid with a new toy]: if all things are empty, then emptiness itself must be empty, too!
Ted Lasso: now that right there is what we call “insight beyond insight” back in Kansas
Higgins: Er, wouldn’t that make nirvana empty as well? And if it’s empty, doesn’t that mean there’s no reason to try to achieve it?
Jan Maas [unfiltered Dutchman]: Thoughts like those are why you’re still stuck in samsara.
If one were to think that in asserting that things are empty that one is positing entities and ascribing to those independent entities the property of emptiness, one would be treating the language of Madhyamika as making literal assertions. But from the standpoint from which these would be true, there are no entities and no characteristics, and a fortiori, there are no entities having the characteristic of being empty. The language must hence be understood, from the ultimate perspective, not as making assertions, but rather as ostending—indicating that which cannot be literally asserted without falling into nonsense—as Wittgenstein puts it in the Tractatus, showing that which cannot be said. […] To hold a view of emptiness—to reify it and then attribute it to phenomena—would then involve simultaneously reifying those phenomena as having a fixed nature and denying their existence at all, in virtue of disparaging their conventional reality as unreality by contrast with the reality of emptiness. It is this incoherence, so characteristic of essentialist philosophies, that leads Nagarjuna to assert that one holding such a view is completely hopeless—incapable of accomplishing anything, philosophically or soteriologically.
Jay L. Garfield, Commentary on The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way
Coolie
Calling all the kollywood or tollywood fans,
It's not just me right. Has anyone else walked out of coolie with an objective thing for Nagarjuna??? I went in for Thalaivar by why did Simon character give such pookie energy (lol)
I literally have been re watching Soniya Soniya since and have started to catch up a bunch of Nagarjuna cinema. Tollywood ppl, drop any recs pls. (If nagarjuna has the long hair or glasses in the movie its a win looks wise ) but I loved Soggade and Banggaraju. Devdas has always been one of my favourites because of Nani.
Atoms vs. emptiness
Just a draft...! Because I need go to sleep now… Ugh, fast-paced editing is so difficult…!
@chaotickittydreamer ←This guy has filled my head with Kuberaa alternate-universe reincarnation fic now…