Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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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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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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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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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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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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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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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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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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