Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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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.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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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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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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