92 Quotes by 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.

Someone who has acted carelessly,

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

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.

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

A person is not earth, not water,

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.

Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.