To have a body is to suffer.
BODHIDHARMAAnd the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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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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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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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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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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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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