The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
BODHIDHARMAWhoever 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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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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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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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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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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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.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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