My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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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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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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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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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The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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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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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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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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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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Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
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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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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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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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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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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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