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.
BODHIDHARMATo find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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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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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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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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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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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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