Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNATrue knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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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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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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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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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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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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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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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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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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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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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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Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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