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.
BODHIDHARMAIf 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.
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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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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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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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.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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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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