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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Derive Mutual Nothing Themselves Vegetarian
Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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Desire Just Pleasure Still
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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Follow Misery Pleasure Wheel
Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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Cause Inevitable Misery Part
Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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Act Create Creature Imagine Magician Other Perform
The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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Like Mankind Misery Pleasure Revolve Wheel
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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Arise Attempt Bee Discord Drop Hive Honey Leak Peace Soon Whole
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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Buddhist Doctrine Enter Essence Fabrication Philosophy Single True
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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Attachment Buddhist Meditation Moire Pleasure Scratch Sire Still
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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Coming Response Serenity Taking Taught Thing Truth Way
A person is not earth, not water, Not fire, not wind, not space, Not consciousness, and not all of them. What person is there other than these?
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Consciousness Earth Fire Person Space Them Water Wind
My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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Absent Act Condition Deed Doer Essence
One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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Harm Injure Injured More Shortened Vegetarian
Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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Entering Impurity Ocean Spring Tree Water
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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Compassion Essence Grammarian Make Practice Study
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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Driven Log Moving River Together Wave Wood

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