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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAEven offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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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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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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One 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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Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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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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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 pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
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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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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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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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