Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
BODHIDHARMAAn Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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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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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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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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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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