The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASo, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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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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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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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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In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
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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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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.
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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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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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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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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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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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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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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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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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Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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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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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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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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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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