The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
BODHIDHARMASomeone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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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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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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