Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAImagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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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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In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
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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 logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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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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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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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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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 misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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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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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