A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThe logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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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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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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The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.
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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 misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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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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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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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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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Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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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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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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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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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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