The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThe Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThat 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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASo, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThere is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAEven offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASome 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
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASuch inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAHe 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 NAGARJUNAOne who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAIn peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASpring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThe teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAImagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNATrue knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNABecause there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAAll 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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