“Bodhi is attainable at the very moment we make up our minds to achieve it....”

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“Dwelling upon nothing means that the mind is not fixed upon good or evil, concentration or distraction, inside or outside… original mind, a bright mirror, utter stillness, Buddha-Mind!”

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“Fools bogged down in a multiplicity of methods endlessly spin in circles. Instead, practice only letting go. This leads to perfection.”

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“Having the Buddha-Eye means perceiving that there is nothing to perceive, that perceiving as though an objective existence only creates illusion.”

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“How to act like a Buddha? With total abstention from action never letting passion, aggression, ignorance, or belief that things exist or don’t exist influence how you act.”

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“I will be a good doctor for the sick and suffering. I will lead those who have lost their way to the right road. I will be a bright light for those in the dark night, and cause the poor and destitute to uncover hidden treasures.”

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“If you completely understand the nature of mind, you can say it changes, and you can say it doesn’t change.”

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“If your mind wanders away, do not follow it. A mind disturbed by love and aversion is deluded; a mind free from delusion and reality alike is real, the Buddha-Mind.”

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“Illumination means the realization that Illumination is not something to be attained.”

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“My miracle? When I’m hungry I eat, when I get sleepy I sleep. When they eat, it can’t be called eating since they do so with a hundred entanglements. When they sleep, it can’t be called sleeping since their mind is beset with worries.”

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“One day not work, one day not eat.”

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“Original nature is your eternal mind… impervious to gain and loss, calumny and eulogy, praise and blame, sorry and joy”

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“Realizing the unreality of opposites and the non-existence of relatives like good/bad, love/hate, happy/sad brings deliverance and the wisdom of knowing what to accept and what to reject.”

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“When the mind is polluted it is ordinary mind. When the mind is unpolluted then it is sacred.”

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“Whether a person remains deluded or gains Illumination depends upon themself, not upon differences or similarity of doctrine.”

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“Wisdom means dissolving the dualism of all opposites, seeing the non-existence of relativity”

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“Your not having perceived your own nature does not imply that you lack that nature — perception itself IS that nature....”

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