The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
BODHIDHARMAWhen we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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