People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
BODHIDHARMAWithout the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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