Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
BODHIDHARMATo go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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 mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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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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To have a body is to suffer.
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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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