The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
BODHIDHARMAAs long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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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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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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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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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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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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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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