To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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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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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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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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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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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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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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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