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.
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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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your 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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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