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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?

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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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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Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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Desire Just Pleasure Still
One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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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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Consciousness Earth Fire Person Space Them Water Wind
So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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Effort Encourage Helping Other Praise Virtue
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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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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Arise Dependent Different Least Nether Thing
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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Follow Misery Pleasure Wheel
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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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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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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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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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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Duality Find Frightening Profound Some Taught

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