To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
BODHIDHARMAAs long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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 Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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