The essence of the Way is detachment.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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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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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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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 mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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