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 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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Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.
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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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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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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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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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In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
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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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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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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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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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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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