If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
BODHIDHARMAWithout the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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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 Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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