Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAA 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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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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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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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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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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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 misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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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