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.
BODHIDHARMAWorship 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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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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