Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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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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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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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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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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