Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMAThe awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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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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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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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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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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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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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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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