The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
BODHIDHARMAUnless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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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. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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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 move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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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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