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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.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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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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Attentive Beautiful Careless Cloud Emerge Moon Someone
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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Compassion Essence Grammarian Make Practice Study
My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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Absent Act Condition Deed Doer Essence
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
The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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Like Mankind Misery Pleasure Revolve Wheel
True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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Knowledge Ocean Spring Talent Virtue Water
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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Driven Log Moving River Together Wave Wood
Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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Entering Impurity Ocean Spring Tree Water
So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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Effort Encourage Helping Other Praise Virtue
To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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Duality Find Frightening Profound Some Taught
In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
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Arise Command Dignity Highest Love Peace Power Profound Respect
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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Buddhist Doctrine Enter Essence Fabrication Philosophy Single True
Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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All Child Compassionate Like Love Pervasive Tenderness
Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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Cause Inevitable Misery Part
Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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Alone Bear Beggar Help Provide Reward Suffer
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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Abandon Abandonment Abounded Earthly Happiness Highly Interest Learn Man Possess Source Two

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