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
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASuch inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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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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Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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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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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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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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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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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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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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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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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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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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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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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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