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.
BODHIDHARMAWhen we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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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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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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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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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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