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.
BODHIDHARMAThose who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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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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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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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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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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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