Nagarjuna

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• SISelf as Illusion

  10 / 10
• MRMystical Receptivity

  9 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  9 / 10
• ATAscetic Tendency

  9 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• VasubandhuTHRESHOLD

  Twenty Verses — defense of mind-only against the realist objection.

• MahaviraTHRESHOLD

  Ahimsa above all. Many-sided reality (anekantavada). Liberation through asceticism.

• Adi ShankaraTHRESHOLD

  Brahman alone is real. The world is illusion. Atman = Brahman. Liberation through knowledge.

• AsangaTHRESHOLD

  Yogācāra — mind-only; consciousness constructs the world it perceives.

• TsongkhapaTHRESHOLD

  Synthesis of sutra and tantra. Emptiness combined with rigorous logic. Lamrim — the graduated path.

• Meister EckhartTHRESHOLD

  Become as nothing. The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.

Concepts where Nagarjuna sits in the conversation. Each links to a primer.

• Personal identity
  You at 5, you at 25, you at 75 — what makes them all "you"?
• Buddhism (philosophical)
  A 2,500-year tradition built around three claims about the self, suffering, and attention.

Side-by-side with other philosophers, dimension by dimension.

• Nagarjuna VS Buddha

Short exercises in the same tradition as Nagarjuna's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• View from above →

  Mentally zoom out — your city, your country, the planet — and look back at your day.

• Memento mori →

  A short, deliberate confrontation with mortality. Clarifying.

• The Examen →

  Five-step Ignatian end-of-day review — what was given, what was missed, what to take into tomorrow.