Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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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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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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