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.
BODHIDHARMAAs mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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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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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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