If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
BODHIDHARMAOnce you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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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 mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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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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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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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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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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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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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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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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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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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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