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.
BODHIDHARMAThe 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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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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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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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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