Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
BODHIDHARMABut 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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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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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 enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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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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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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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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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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When 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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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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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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