“To say “I was in the past” is not tenable. What existed in the past is not identical to this one. … To say “in the past I wasn’t” would not be tenable. This person is not different from whoever existed in previous times. … So, the views “I existed,” “I didn’t exist,” both or neither, in the past are untenable.”
– Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Garfield tr. (27:3,9,13)
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