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?
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAIn peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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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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Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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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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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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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
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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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Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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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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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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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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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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