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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If you think you see both
Destruction and becoming,
Then you see destruction and becoming
Through impaired vision.

To those possessed of breeding, learning, handsome looks,
Who have no wisdom, neither discipline, you need not bow.
But those who do have these two qualities,
Though lacking other virtues, you should revere.

"I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have."
That frightens all the childish
And extinguishes fear in the wise.

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