Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAAlthough 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.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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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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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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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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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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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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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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Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.
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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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That which arises dependent on something is not in the least that thing, neither is it different from it. Therefore, it is neither permanent or nothing.
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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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