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• Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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  Sex

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.39, Macmillan

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• The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.

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  Wisdom, Real, Space

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.43, Macmillan

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• The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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  Real, Mind, Body

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.43, Macmillan

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• The essence of the Way is detachment.

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  Essence, Way, Detachment

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• The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.

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  Eye, Mind, Sound

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.23, Macmillan

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• As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

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  Conditions, Mortals

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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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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  Life, Hate, Rebirth

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.59, Macmillan

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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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  Past, Worry, Alive

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.75, Macmillan

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• The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.

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  Wisdom, Perfect, Water

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.29, Macmillan

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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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  Wall, Heart, Advice

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

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  Mean, Evil, Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.111, Macmillan

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• A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.

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  Karma, Heaven, Matter

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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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  Blessed, Past, Rewards

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

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  Mind, Impossible, Good And Bad

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.77, Macmillan

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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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  Liars, Practice, People

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.19, Macmillan

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• Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?

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  Karma, Believe, Fall

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• 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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  Nature, Clouds, Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.35, Macmillan

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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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  Life, Karma, Goes Around Comes Around

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.35, Macmillan

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

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  Mind, Language, Moments

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.23, Macmillan

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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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  People, Mind, Realizing

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.25, Macmillan

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• One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.

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  Reality, Born

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• Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.

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  Wall, Self, Leaving

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• Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

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  Sacred

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

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  Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.19, Macmillan

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

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  Teaching, Writing, Ideas

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