The essence of the Way is detachment.
BODHIDHARMAAs long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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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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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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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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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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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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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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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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