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.

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

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

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.