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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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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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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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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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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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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.
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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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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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