As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
BODHIDHARMADelusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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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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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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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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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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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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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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