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86. Herein, the robe is any one of those beginning with the inner cloth. He uses: heemploys; dresses in , or puts on . Only is a phrase signifying invariability in the definition of a limit of a purpose; the purpose in the meditator’s…

A wrongly viewed emptiness destroys the weak intelligence, like a clumsily held snake or an ill worked spell. -Nagarjuna-

81. Denigration is denigrating someone by saying that he is not a giver, or by censuring him. All-round denigration is continual denigration. Tale-bearing is bearing tales from house to house, from village to village, from district to…

There is nothing as fearful as death, and there is no suffering as great as birth. Be free from the fear of both birth and death, by doing away with attachment to the body. -Mahavira-

76. Fondling is the state of the act of fondling. For when a man fondles children on his lap or on his shoulder like a nurse—he nurses, is the meaning—that fondler’s act is the act of fondling. The state of the act of fondling is fondling.…

The limits of Nirvana the limits of Samsara. Between the two, also, there is not the slightest difference whatsoever. -Nagarjuna-

70. It is hypocrisy on the part of one of evil wishes, which takes the form of deportment influenced by eagerness to be admired, that should be understood as the instance of scheming dependent on deportment, according as it is said: “What…

To be enlightened is to be of ultimate service to sentient beings infinite as the expanse of space. -Nagarjuna-

61. As regards scheming, etc. (§42), this is the text: “Herein, what is scheming? It is the grimacing, grimacery, scheming, schemery, schemedness, by what is called rejection of requisites or by indirect talk, or it is the disposing,…

The disciples of Gotama, who by day and night contemplate on non-injury to living beings, arise well-awakened. -Buddha-