The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
BODHIDHARMAIf you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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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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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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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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