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?
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
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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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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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Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.
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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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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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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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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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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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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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