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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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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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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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Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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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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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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