Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
BODHIDHARMAThe awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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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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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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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 ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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