Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
BODHIDHARMAAs mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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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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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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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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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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