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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.

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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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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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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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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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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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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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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Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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A person is not earth, not water, Not fire, not wind, not space, Not consciousness, and not all of them. What person is there other than these?
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In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
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