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Someone who has acted carelessly, But later becomes careful and attentive, Is as beautiful as the bright moon emerging from the clouds.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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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?
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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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The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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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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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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Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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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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Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
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Someone who has acted carelessly, But later becomes careful and attentive, Is as beautiful as the bright moon emerging from the clouds.
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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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