I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
BODHIDHARMAPeople who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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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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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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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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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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