The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThe pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAAll philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAA Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good,
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
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThat 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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASo, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
AKKINENI NAGARJUNABecause there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAEven offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThe logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAGreat compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAJust so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAOne who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
AKKINENI NAGARJUNATo others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAA highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASuch inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThere is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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