To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
BODHIDHARMAWhen your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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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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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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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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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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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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