The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
BODHIDHARMAThis one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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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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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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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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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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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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