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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.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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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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Alone Bear Beggar Help Provide Reward Suffer
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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Consciousness Earth Fire Person Space Them Water Wind
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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Arise Attempt Bee Discord Drop Hive Honey Leak Peace Soon Whole
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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Attentive Beautiful Careless Cloud Emerge Moon Someone
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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Driven Log Moving River Together Wave Wood
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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Compassion Essence Grammarian Make Practice Study
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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Coming Compassion Emptiness Enlightenment Essence Profound Serenity Teach Ultimate
Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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Act Create Creature Imagine Magician Other Perform
Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.
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Being Bone Children Compassion Living Marrow Penetrate Support Yoga
Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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All Child Compassionate Like Love Pervasive Tenderness
True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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Knowledge Ocean Spring Talent Virtue Water
So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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Effort Encourage Helping Other Praise Virtue
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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Coming Response Serenity Taking Taught Thing Truth Way
The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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Avoid Buddhist Duality Merit People Some Spiritual Taught Teach
Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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Cause Inevitable Misery Part
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Derive Mutual Nothing Themselves Vegetarian

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