To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
BODHIDHARMABut while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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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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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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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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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Externally 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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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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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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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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