The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
BODHIDHARMADon’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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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.
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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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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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