Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
BODHIDHARMATo have a body is to suffer.
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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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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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But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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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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To have a body is to suffer.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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