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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
The essence of the Way is detachment.
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
To have a body is to suffer.
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
