1. How do we know what is right to do and what is wrong to do? If it's really like what Nagarjuna said, that reality is relative, then how do we define a good action. If a good action is to make a person feel happy, then what is this happiness? And why does happiness matter, if after all, everything is empty?
2. If, as Nagarjuna said, that everything is relative and has no independent, fixed nature, then how does cause and effect work? If a cause necessitates the effect, then apparently there's an inherent and fixed character about cause. Is Nagarjuna saying there's no cause and effect relationship after all? If so, is he denying the fundamental principle (Karma) of his religion?
3. The nature of mind. If our current minds evolve from our minds yesterday, and the ones yesterday from the day before yesterday, the day before yesterday from last week, which is from last month, last year, all the way back to the time when we were still in our mothers' wombs, then imagine the moment when the new life first appears, when the egg and sperm first met. Where does that very first conscious come from? If from somewhere else, how come we cannot remember what happened before we entered our current bodies?
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