When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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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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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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