Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
BODHIDHARMAThe Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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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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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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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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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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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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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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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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 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 ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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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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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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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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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