My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAThe teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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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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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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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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The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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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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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
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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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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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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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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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