Bodhidharma Quotes, Nature Quotes, Clouds Quotes

If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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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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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth.

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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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