Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMAThe ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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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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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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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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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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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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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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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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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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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