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.
BODHIDHARMAAs long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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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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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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