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- When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
- To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
- There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward…
- To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be…
- Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious,…
- Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization…
- Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things…
- All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner…
- Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those…
- When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and…
- Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you…
- Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
- Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we grasp onto the physical forms we see. Since we are provided with both…
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