Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
BODHIDHARMAWhoever 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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Whoever 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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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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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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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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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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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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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