“If the one who desires existed prior to and without desire, then desire would be dependent on that; there being the one who desires, desire would then exist. But how will desire itself come to be if there is none who desires? … There is establishing of desire neither together with the one who desires nor apart from the one who desires.”
– Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Siderits & Katsura tr. (6:1-2,10)
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