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Here’s a structured table that distills the comparison you’re pointing toward—Madhyamaka, Advaita Vedanta, and the experiential emphasis of J. Krishnamurti.

Aspect	Madhyamaka (Nāgārjuna)	Advaita Vedānta (Śaṅkara)	Krishnamurti
Core insight	All phenomena are empty of inherent existence (śūnyatā)	Only Brahman is real; world is ultimately non-different from awareness	Truth is a “living thing” perceived when thought ends
Method	Deconstruction via logic (prasaṅga), refuting all fixed views	Discrimination (viveka) between Self and non-self	Direct observation without choice or analysis
View of self (ego)	No independently existing self can be found	Ego is ignorance; Self (Ātman) is identical with Brahman	Psychological “I” is a movement of thought
Role of thought	Useful but ultimately unable to grasp reality	Useful at lower level, transcended in realization	Thought is inherently limited and divisive
Liberation/enlightenment	Seeing emptiness of all constructs; freedom from reification	Realization of nondual Self; ignorance dissolves	Ending of psychological time and becoming
Final “state” description	Beyond all conceptual extremes (neither existence nor non-existence)	Nondual awareness (pure Being-Consciousness-Bliss)	Timeless awareness without division or conflict
Tone/style	Analytical, dialectical, anti-essentialist	Metaphysical but systematic	Psychological, experiential, anti-authority
Risk of misunderstanding	Nihilism (misreading emptiness as nothingness)	Eternalism (reifying Brahman as a “thing”)	Rejection of structure or disciplined inquiry

A key convergence across all three:

They are not describing a different experience to obtain, but a shift in how experience is cognized:

• from reification (“this is me / mine / real-in-itself”)

• to non-clinging awareness where phenomena arise without solidification

A key divergence:

• Nāgārjuna dissolves all fixed metaphysical positions, including any ultimate “ground”

• Śaṅkara affirms a single ultimate reality (Brahman)

• Krishnamurti avoids both positions and insists any formulation becomes limitation

If you want, I can also compress this into a single “essence line” showing where all three converge at the experiential level despite their philosophical differences.