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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAOne who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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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Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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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 teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.
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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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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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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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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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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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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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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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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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