All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
BODHIDHARMAPeople 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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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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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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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Don’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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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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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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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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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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