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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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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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Abandon Abandonment Abounded Earthly Happiness Highly Interest Learn Man Possess Source Two
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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Anger Enemy Exhaust Foe Kill Own Quell Real Spend
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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Collect Elegant Gift Say Supreme Teaching Wisdom Word
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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Arise Attempt Bee Discord Drop Hive Honey Leak Peace Soon Whole
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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Bowl Buddhist Day Gain Hundred Match Movement Offering Spiritual Time
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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According Buddham Teacher God Other Refrain Sin Student Tolerance Urge
All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
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Buddhist Doctrine Enter Essence Fabrication Philosophy Single True
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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Consciousness Earth Fire Person Space Them Water Wind
Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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All Child Compassionate Like Love Pervasive Tenderness
Someone who has acted carelessly, But later becomes careful and attentive, Is as beautiful as the bright moon emerging from the clouds.
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Attentive Beautiful Careless Cloud Emerge Moon Someone
My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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Absent Act Condition Deed Doer Essence
True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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Knowledge Ocean Spring Talent Virtue Water

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