The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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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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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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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 pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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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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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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Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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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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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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Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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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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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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