Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
BODHIDHARMAWhen you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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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 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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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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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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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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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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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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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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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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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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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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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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