If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
BODHIDHARMAAs mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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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To have a body is to suffer.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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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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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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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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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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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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