The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
BODHIDHARMASomeone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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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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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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 this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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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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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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