Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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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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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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When 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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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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