Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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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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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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