Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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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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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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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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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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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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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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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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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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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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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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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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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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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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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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