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Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

Bodhidharma

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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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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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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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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.
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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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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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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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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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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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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 have a body is to suffer.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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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