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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASuch inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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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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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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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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Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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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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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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