Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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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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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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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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