People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
BODHIDHARMAPeople of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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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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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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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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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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