Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void. — Akkineni Nagarjuna

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