There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThe logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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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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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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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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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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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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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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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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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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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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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