To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
BODHIDHARMAWhen your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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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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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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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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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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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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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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