Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
BODHIDHARMAWhen we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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