Therefore, the Mādhyamika and the Yogācārin philosophies can also become objects of attachment, and misconstrued as wrong views. Yet, the fact that their doctrines appear to be poles apart, I will suggest, is merely a consequence of the inability of words to capture nondual experience, or to describe reality as perceived by the enlightened being. The best that can be achieved, it will emerge, is a Middle Path attained by avoiding two extreme views, which correspond to the two poles of any dualism.
A more adequate interpretation, then, is to regard the Yogācārin and Mādhyamika philosophies as complementary, together bringing Mahāyāna thought to completion (Nagao 1992, 225). In what follows, I shall further develop this idea.