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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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Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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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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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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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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Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
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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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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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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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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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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.
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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment.
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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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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 logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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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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