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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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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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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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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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The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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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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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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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