portant to the Buddha. (Rahula) When one is on the right views of all eight paths they are stable and at peace with nature. They also achieve a spiritual awareness that does not need to desire anything. The first two right views, understanding and thought, deal with wisdom. The next three, speech, action, and livelihood, deal with Morality. The last three, effort, mindfulness, and concentration, deal with meditation, how to concentrate on one focus point. (Facter) Nagarjuna was a Buddhist who took the philosophical view of the Middle way and used it to develop a view known as Emptiness. It developed a new form of Buddhism known as Zen. “Zen is something enigmatic, beyond intellectual analysis” (Abe 3). Sayings in Zen are empty thoughts designed to empty the mind of useless thoughts. Emptiness comes from the Buddhist teaching that everything is in a constant change. Time does not stop. Nagarjuna taught that everything is a concept and ideas are imaginable, Ultimate Reality, take on nothing called animitta, meaning no form. (Abe) “The eye does not see and the mind does not think; this is the highest truth [. . .] that cannot be preached in words” (Zimmer 520). Being from a Western World, the main philosophers of Hinduism and Buddhism are parallel in thought. Religions that teach truth or practices to do good moral deeds have parallels also. Raised Christian but not believing in an organized religion, delving into the Eastern Religions they appear to be right on with being able to relate to certain things. We as humans, conditioned during life about doing wrong acts such as killing, stealing, and lying, need a faith no matter what side of the Earth it comes from. Sankara, Ramanuja, and Madhva believing in divine principles sometimes did not agree with each other or Buddhism. Nagarjuna’s emptiness does exist. Nothing does exist, it is something, and this is a contradiction in Nagarjuna...
