My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAImagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
-
-
In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA -
A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA -
Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA -
Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA -
Someone who has acted carelessly, But later becomes careful and attentive, Is as beautiful as the bright moon emerging from the clouds.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA -
A person is not earth, not water, Not fire, not wind, not space, Not consciousness, and not all of them. What person is there other than these?
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA -
Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA -
Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA -
One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA -
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA -
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA -
Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA -
So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA -
To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA -
The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA