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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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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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Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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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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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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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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Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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