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
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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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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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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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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?
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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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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 Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good,
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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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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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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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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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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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Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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