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My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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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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Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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All Child Compassionate Like Love Pervasive Tenderness
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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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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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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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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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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Abandon Abandonment Abounded Earthly Happiness Highly Interest Learn Man Possess Source Two
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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Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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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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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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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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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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