According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
BODHIDHARMAWorship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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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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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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