Bodhidharma Quotes, Attachment Quotes, Transformation Quotes

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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At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

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People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

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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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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

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The essence of the Way is detachment.

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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

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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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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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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.

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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

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