Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
BODHIDHARMAIf your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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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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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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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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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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