Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThe teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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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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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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In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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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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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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Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.
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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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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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