black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

Related Topics

Desire Just Pleasure Still

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Coming Compassion Emptiness Enlightenment Essence Profound Serenity Teach Ultimate
True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Knowledge Ocean Spring Talent Virtue Water
The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Collect Elegant Gift Say Supreme Teaching Wisdom Word
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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Anger Enemy Exhaust Foe Kill Own Quell Real Spend
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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Arise Dependent Different Least Nether Thing
So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Effort Encourage Helping Other Praise Virtue
Someone who has acted carelessly, But later becomes careful and attentive, Is as beautiful as the bright moon emerging from the clouds.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Attentive Beautiful Careless Cloud Emerge Moon Someone
To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Duality Find Frightening Profound Some Taught
Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Entering Impurity Ocean Spring Tree Water
Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Bowl Buddhist Day Gain Hundred Match Movement Offering Spiritual Time
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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Arise Attempt Bee Discord Drop Hive Honey Leak Peace Soon Whole
All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Buddhist Doctrine Enter Essence Fabrication Philosophy Single True
Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Act Create Creature Imagine Magician Other Perform
Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

All Child Compassionate Like Love Pervasive Tenderness
Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Being Bone Children Compassion Living Marrow Penetrate Support Yoga
Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Cause Inevitable Misery Part

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes