Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
BODHIDHARMATo see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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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.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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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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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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