The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
BODHIDHARMABuddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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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 ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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