One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
BODHIDHARMATo find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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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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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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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