If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
BODHIDHARMAEverything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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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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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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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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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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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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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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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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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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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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 Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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One 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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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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