Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
BODHIDHARMATo have a body is to suffer.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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