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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.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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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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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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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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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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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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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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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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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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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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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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