Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes

• Someone who has acted carelessly,
  But later becomes careful and attentive,
  Is as beautiful as the bright moon
  emerging from the clouds.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Beautiful, Moon, Clouds

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

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Vegetarian, Interdependence, Mutual

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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.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Teaching

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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.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Different, Arise, Dependent

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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.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Men, Two, Abandoned

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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.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Essence

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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.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Buddhist, Attachment, Meditation

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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?

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Fire, Wind, Space

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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

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Offering

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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.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Children, Yoga, Compassion

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• Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Void, Dependent

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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.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Truth, Serenity, Way

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• The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Teaching, Words Of Wisdom, Should

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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

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Compassion, Essence, Practice

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• So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Encouragement, Helping Others, Effort

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• Without hope of reward
  Provide help to others.
  Bear suffering alone,
  And share your pleasures with beggars.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Suffering, Rewards, Bears

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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.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Moving, Rivers, Together

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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.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Wheels, Misery, Pleasure

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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.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Spring, Ocean, Water

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• In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Love, Peace, Dignity

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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.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Real, War, Anger

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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.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Essence, Deeds, Doers

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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.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Peace, Honey, Bees

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

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Vegetarianism, Harm, Injured

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