Nagarjuna ( c. 150 – c. 250 CE) was an Indian Buddhist monk in the Mahayana school, and is considered one of the most important of Buddhist philosophers. Virtually nothing is certain about his personal life, but he may have lived in the Deccan region.

I have no body apart
From parts which form it.
I know no parts
Apart from a “body.”

A body with no parts
Would be unformed,
A part of my body apart from my body
Would be absurd.

Were the body here or not,
It would need no parts.
Partless bodies are pointless.
Do not get stuck in the “body.”

I cannot say,
“My body is like its parts.”
I cannot say,
“It’s something else.”

Feelings, perceptions,
Drives, minds, things
Are like this body
In every way.

Conflict with emptiness
Is no conflict;
Objections to emptiness,
No objections.

Translation Stephen Batchelor