Thanks so much to Homeless Tom and Eshu from the Victoria Zen Centre for the suggestions to help me along with my study of Nagajuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika.
I will certainly be picking up Stephen Batchelor’s “Verses from the Center’ and will investigate Jay Garfield’s materials a bit more. I started out reading Garfield’s book “The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way” but became rather overwhelmed with it. Eshu does have a good point that “Unfortunately “easy to grasp” and Mulamadhyamakakarika don’t really go together all that well.” I really needed that reality check.
Time to put my nose to the grindstone without a characteristic that never existed.
Oh boy!
Glad to be of help! Good luck with coming to an understanding of emptiness!
Read Jan Westerhoff’s “Nagarjuna’s Madkhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction”. Scholarly and a bit demanding, but accessible and immensely rewarding.