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.
BODHIDHARMAThe ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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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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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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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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