Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
BODHIDHARMAYou can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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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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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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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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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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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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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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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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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