Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNATo others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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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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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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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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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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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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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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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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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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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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Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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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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