The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
BODHIDHARMABut 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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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