Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
BODHIDHARMANot creating delusions is enlightenment.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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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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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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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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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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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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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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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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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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