Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
BODHIDHARMAAll 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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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.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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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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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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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