Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
BODHIDHARMAThe Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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But 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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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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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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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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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