As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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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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 Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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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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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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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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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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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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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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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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