When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are … - Bodhidharma

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A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking. . . I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense.

Bodhidharma

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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When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

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

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If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

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