And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
BODHIDHARMAThe ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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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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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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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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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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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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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no 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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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