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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAHe 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.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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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 pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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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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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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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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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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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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The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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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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Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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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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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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