Bodhidharma
semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
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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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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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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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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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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Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
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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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People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
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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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The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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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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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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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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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
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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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