Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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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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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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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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