Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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