Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
BODHIDHARMADelusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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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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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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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