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.
BODHIDHARMAThe 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.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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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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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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