Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
BODHIDHARMAOne 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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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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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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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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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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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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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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