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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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Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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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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Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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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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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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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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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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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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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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