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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.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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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 Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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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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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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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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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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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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