Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
BODHIDHARMAThe Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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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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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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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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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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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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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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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To have a body is to suffer.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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