Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASuch inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAJust as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
AKKINENI NAGARJUNABecause there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThere is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASome 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
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThe logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAA 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?
AKKINENI NAGARJUNALike the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASomeone who has acted carelessly, But later becomes careful and attentive, Is as beautiful as the bright moon emerging from the clouds.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAOne who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAAll philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAHe 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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAJust so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThings derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThe misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAUltimate 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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA