| "Things derive their being and nature by mutual | | | | the one place where the answer sits, waiting to be |
| dependence and are nothing in themselves." | | | | released. I don't think I know the answer, because I |
| Nagarjuna was born in India around 150- 250 AD. | | | | forgot the question. |
| There are many legends associated with his life, but | | | | Who I am is the answer to my forgotten question. |
| few actual facts exist. One thing that is known is | | | | Am I what I see, hear and do in this physical |
| that he was one of the most influential thinkers in | | | | journey? Am I my religion, my politics, my race, my |
| Buddhism, right behind Buddha himself. He is the | | | | social status? Is that what I depend on? Are they |
| founder of Mahayana (middle path), school of | | | | the ingredients that make my being, real? I could be |
| Buddhism and his writings are studied world wide. His | | | | all those things, yet the question goes unanswered. I |
| philosophy is based on emptiness, meaning the | | | | still feel lonely. |
| underlying essence of all things is empty of being | | | | My answer is simple. I look within myself and discover |
| independent. I just have to look around me and see | | | | another me. A me that is independent of allthose |
| that everything is dependent on something. | | | | physical things, yet is dependent on what I am, Love. |
| The fact that I am nothing without something else | | | | I feel love within me, waiting to be real. I release my |
| has been written about for centuries. Religion is | | | | thoughts of loneliness and unite with my Source. I |
| based on this premise. Politics survives because of its | | | | become all the things I see, for they are dependent |
| dependence. Social and racial equality are based on it. | | | | on the same thing, Love. I am connected and |
| History repeats itself through a belief in dependency. | | | | without that awareness, I am nothing just as |
| It turns out I am an independent, dependent of all | | | | Nagarjuna explains. In knowing that I am Love, I |
| there is. The question is, what is it I am dependent | | | | answer my self. In accepting there is more to me |
| on? | | | | than body and mind, I answer myself. Being love is |
| Everything as Nagarjuna points out, is dependent and | | | | being independently dependent. Being Love is All |
| is not a complete self without considering what it is | | | | There Is. Nothing exists without it, unless I create it, |
| dependent on. I search the world and all that's in it to | | | | and then it is just an illusion. Illusions exist but are |
| find the answer. I look for the answer in people, in | | | | nothing in themselves, unless I depend on them. |
| rituals, in the God of my religion. But I fail to search | | | | |