The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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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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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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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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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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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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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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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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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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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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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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