The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThat 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 highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.
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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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My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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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 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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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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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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Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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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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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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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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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 pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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