Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
BODHIDHARMAPeople of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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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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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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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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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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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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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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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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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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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.
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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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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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