Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
BODHIDHARMAThe essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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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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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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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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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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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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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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