The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
BODHIDHARMAIf you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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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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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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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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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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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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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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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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