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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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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
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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Attachment Buddhist Meditation Moire Pleasure Scratch Sire Still
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
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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Compassion Essence Grammarian Make Practice Study
Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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Entering Impurity Ocean Spring Tree Water
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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Arise Dependent Different Least Nether Thing
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
One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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Harm Injure Injured More Shortened Vegetarian
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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Abandon Abandonment Abounded Earthly Happiness Highly Interest Learn Man Possess Source Two
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
My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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Absent Act Condition Deed Doer Essence
Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
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Arising Dependent Phenomena Void
Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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Desire Just Pleasure Still
The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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Like Mankind Misery Pleasure Revolve Wheel
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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Follow Misery Pleasure Wheel
In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
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Arise Command Dignity Highest Love Peace Power Profound Respect

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