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It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines?
The ultimate Truth is beyond words.
Wherever you find delight, you find bondage.
Poverty and hardship are created by false thinking.
A buddha is an idle person. He doesn’t run around after fortune and fame. What good are such things in the end?
Even if some habits remain, they can’t harm you, because your nature is essentially pure. Despite dwelling in a material body of four elements, your nature is basically pure.
evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings. Angry people go to hell and happy people go to heaven.
“Detachment is enlightenment because it negates appearances.”
because both his mind and reality are still, he’s always in samadhi.
If you don’t forget about the mind, the mind will confuse you,
Our endless sufferings are the roots of illness.
transform the three poisons of greed, anger, and delusion into the three releases
three sets of precepts87
To fast means to regulate, to regulate your body and mind so that they’re not distracted or disturbed.
delight that comes from acting in accordance with the Dharma.
the harmony of body and mind that comes from seeing through subject and object.
the resolution to pursue virtue
the liberation of your mind from worldly contamination.
They give free rein to their passions and have no shame.
If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship.
think of worship as expressing humility and subduing the mind.
wisdom, which penetrates subject and object,
chewing willow catkins purifies the breath.
