Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASo, 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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In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
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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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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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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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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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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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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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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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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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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Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.
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