When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
BODHIDHARMAIf your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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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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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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