All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
BODHIDHARMAStill 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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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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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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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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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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