People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
BODHIDHARMAEverything sacred, nothing sacred.
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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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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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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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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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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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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