Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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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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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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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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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 essence of the Way is detachment.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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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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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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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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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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