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.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNASpring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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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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Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.
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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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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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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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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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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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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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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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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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My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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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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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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