The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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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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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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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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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Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.
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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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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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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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My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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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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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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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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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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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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