The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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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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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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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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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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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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