Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
BODHIDHARMAThe Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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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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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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