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