And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
BODHIDHARMABuddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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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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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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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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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.
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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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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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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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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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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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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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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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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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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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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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