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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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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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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Derive Mutual Nothing Themselves Vegetarian
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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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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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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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
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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So, to praise others for their virtues – Can but encourage one’s own efforts
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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
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Harm Injure Injured More Shortened Vegetarian
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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The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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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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Desire Just Pleasure Still
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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My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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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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The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
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