The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
BODHIDHARMATo enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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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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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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An 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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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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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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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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