People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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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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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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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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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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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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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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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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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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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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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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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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