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All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee’s hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.
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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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Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
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Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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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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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.
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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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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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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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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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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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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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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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