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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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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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Arise Attempt Bee Discord Drop Hive Honey Leak Peace Soon Whole
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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Follow Misery Pleasure Wheel
My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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Absent Act Condition Deed Doer Essence
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
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
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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Compassion Essence Grammarian Make Practice Study
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
So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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Effort Encourage Helping Other Praise Virtue
Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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Desire Just Pleasure Still
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
Someone who has acted carelessly, But later becomes careful and attentive, Is as beautiful as the bright moon emerging from the clouds.
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Attentive Beautiful Careless Cloud Emerge Moon Someone
Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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Cause Inevitable Misery Part
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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Buddhist Doctrine Enter Essence Fabrication Philosophy Single True
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
One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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Harm Injure Injured More Shortened Vegetarian
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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According Buddham Teacher God Other Refrain Sin Student Tolerance Urge

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