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.
BODHIDHARMAWorship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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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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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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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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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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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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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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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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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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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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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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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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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