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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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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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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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Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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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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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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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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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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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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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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My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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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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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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