Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMAOur true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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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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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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