The Buddhist teacher and philosopher, Nagarjuna. I’ve been studying his work The Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way) recently, which essentially is a dialectical process in the direction of enlightenment which teases the mind completely out of thought. For an easily accessible introduction to Nagarjuna’s philosophy read “Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime” by Stephen Batchelor. There’s also some great downloadable audio talks by Zoketsu Norman Fischer over at Everyday Zen on the subject. (via crashinglybeautiful)

(NB: nagarjuna is the shit)