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.
BODHIDHARMAReality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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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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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.
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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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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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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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