Four extremes of arising.

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Neither from itself nor from another,
Nor from both,
Nor without a cause,
Does anything anywhere, ever arise.

Nagarjuna
From the Root Verses on the Wisdom of the Middle Way
Skt. Mūlamadhyamaka-kārikā
Excerpt from Ocean of Reasoning by Tsongkhapa