Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNATo others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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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 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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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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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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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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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 Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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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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Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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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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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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