As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
BODHIDHARMAAn Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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When 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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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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