Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
BODHIDHARMAIn order to see a fish you must watch the water
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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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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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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 the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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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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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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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.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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