Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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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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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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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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