An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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 look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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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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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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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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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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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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