But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
BODHIDHARMAWhen mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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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 look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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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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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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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 your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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