At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
BODHIDHARMAWhen mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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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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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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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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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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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