Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
BODHIDHARMALeaving 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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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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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 essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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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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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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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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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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