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.
BODHIDHARMAEverything sacred, nothing sacred.
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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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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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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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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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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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