Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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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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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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 Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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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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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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