The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
BODHIDHARMAWhen you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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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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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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 essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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