Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
BODHIDHARMAExternally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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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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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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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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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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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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