Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMAIf your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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The 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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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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