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The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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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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Arising Dependent Phenomena Void
All 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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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores 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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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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Alone Bear Beggar Help Provide Reward Suffer
So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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All Child Compassionate Like Love Pervasive Tenderness
The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Avoid Buddhist Duality Merit People Some Spiritual Taught Teach
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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Consciousness Earth Fire Person Space Them Water Wind
Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.
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Being Bone Children Compassion Living Marrow Penetrate Support Yoga
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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Driven Log Moving River Together Wave Wood
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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Bowl Buddhist Day Gain Hundred Match Movement Offering Spiritual Time
To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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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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Anger Enemy Exhaust Foe Kill Own Quell Real Spend
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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Coming Compassion Emptiness Enlightenment Essence Profound Serenity Teach Ultimate
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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Arise Dependent Different Least Nether Thing

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