The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
BODHIDHARMAThe essence of the Way is detachment.
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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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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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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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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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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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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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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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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