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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASomeone who has acted carelessly, But later becomes careful and attentive, Is as beautiful as the bright moon emerging from the clouds.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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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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The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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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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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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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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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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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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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
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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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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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