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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASo, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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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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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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 Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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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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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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Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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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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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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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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