Someone who has acted carelessly, But later becomes careful and attentive, Is as beautiful as the bright moon emerging from the clouds.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAJust so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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Some 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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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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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 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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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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Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires 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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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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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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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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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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