If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
BODHIDHARMAYou can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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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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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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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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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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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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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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