Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAWithout hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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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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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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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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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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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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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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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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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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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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Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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