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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThe misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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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.
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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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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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Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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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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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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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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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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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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A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good,
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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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