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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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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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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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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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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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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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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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To have a body is to suffer.
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