The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
BODHIDHARMALeaving 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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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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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.
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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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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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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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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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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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