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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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Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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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 Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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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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Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.
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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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Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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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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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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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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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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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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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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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