As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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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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