Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
BODHIDHARMAIf your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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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 suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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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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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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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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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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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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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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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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