But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
BODHIDHARMABut deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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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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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.
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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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