Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASomeone 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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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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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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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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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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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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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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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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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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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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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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