Một dòng thở nhẹ – Nhật ký Thiền

Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka is one of the peaks of Mahāyānathought. But for many people, including myself, it is also a difficult door to open: sharp language, tight logic, and concepts like “emptiness,” “dependent origination,” “the middle way” easily pull the mind into spirals of reasoning.

That is why I want to light a candle — Jiddu Krishnamurti’s candle — to illuminate the Madhyamaka path. Jiddu does not speak of “emptiness,” but he constantly invites us to look directly at reality without any concept. He does not speak of “dependent origination,” but he points to the movement of the mind, of perception, of the self — all without inherent nature, always changing, always interdependent.

What is special about Jiddu is that he wants to go beyond all scriptural language, free from religion or sect. But that very transcendence helps us see more clearly the spirit of Madhyamaka:

not clinging to “is,” not clinging to “is not”;
not grasping, not rejecting;
not falling into extremes;
not constructing a system only to be trapped by it.

This series does not aim to explain Madhyamaka academically. I only want to record what I see when placing Jiddu’s teachings next to Nāgārjuna’s wisdom — like two lamps shining into the same emptiness, helping us see more clearly the nature of the concepts we cling to.

I hope this small light helps me — and perhaps you — enter Madhyamaka with a lighter, freer, more genuine heart.