A person is not earth, not water, Not fire, not wind, not space, Not consciousness, and not all of them. What person is there other than these?
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAMy acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
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Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.
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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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That which arises dependent on something is not in the least that thing, neither is it different from it. Therefore, it is neither permanent or nothing.
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A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good,
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My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion
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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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