Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes, Truth Quotes, Serenity Quotes

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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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good, Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion

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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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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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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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My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence... Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions? Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.

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Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

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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 misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

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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. 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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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

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True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.

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One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more

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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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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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