The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThe logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNALike the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAHe 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 NAGARJUNAThe pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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 NAGARJUNAAll philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASomeone 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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAImagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAMy acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAOne who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAA Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good,
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThe Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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 misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAIn peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
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