The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAJust as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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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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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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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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Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
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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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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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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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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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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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My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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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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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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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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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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