Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
BODHIDHARMAWorship 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. 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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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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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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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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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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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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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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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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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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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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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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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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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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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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