Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
BODHIDHARMAThe 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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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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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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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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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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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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