“I, without grasping will pass beyond sorrow,
And I will attain nirvāṇa, one says.
Whoever grasps like this
Has great grasping.”

— Nagarjuna, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

§ 16.9
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

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