27 Quotes by Siddha Nagarjuna

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

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

If you desire ease, forsake learning.

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

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

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

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.

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

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