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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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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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My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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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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In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.
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A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.
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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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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.
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