Akkineni Nagarjuna famous quotes

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

#Suffering #Rewards #Bears

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

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

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

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

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

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

#Vegetarianism #Harm

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

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 #Doe #Honey

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

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

If you desire ease, forsake learning.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna

#Learning #Desire #Ease

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 #Desire #Pleasure

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

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

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

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

#Helping Others #Effort #Praise

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

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 #Enemy

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

#Vegetarian #Mutual

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

#Love #Arise #Command

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