The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
BODHIDHARMAWhen you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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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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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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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 Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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