The essence of the Way is detachment.
BODHIDHARMAAs mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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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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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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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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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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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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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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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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