Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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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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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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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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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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