Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
BODHIDHARMARegardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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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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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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