Even if you seek to harm an enemy, You should remove your o… - Nagarjuna

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Even if you seek to harm an enemy,
You should remove your own defects and cultivate good qualities.
Through that you will help yourself,
And the enemy will be displeased.

Nagarjuna

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Nāgārjuna (c. 150 – 250), sometimes called the "second Buddha" in Tibetan and East Asian Mahayana traditions, was an Indian Buddhist monk and philosopher. He systematized Mahayana Buddhist philosophy around the central concept of the emptiness (shunyata) of all existents (dharmas).

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Alternative Names: Nāgajjuna Bhikkhu • Nāgārjunācārya • Nāgārjuna Bodhisattva • Aacharya Nagarjuna • Nagarjun • Nagarjunacharya • Naga Arjuna • Nāgārjuna

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No suffering is self-caused.
Nothing causes itself. If another is not self-made, How could suffering be caused by another? If suffering were caused by each, Suffering could be caused by both. Not caused by self or by other, How could suffering be uncaused?

Due to having faith one relies on the practices,
Due to having wisdom one truly knows.
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Faith is its prerequisite.

"I, without grasping will pass beyond sorrow,
And I will attain nirvāṇa," one says.
Whoever grasps like this
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