Alaida Lares Quotes

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

To have a body is to suffer.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won`t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you`ll understand both.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you`ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Words are illusions.

And as long as you`re subject to birth and death, you`ll never attain enlightenment.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

As mortals, we`re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

People of this world are deluded. They`re always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

But deluded people don`t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

As long as you`re enthralled by a lifeless form, you`re not free.

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

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren`t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

Your mind is nirvana.

Your nature is the Buddha.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn`t require perfecting.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

The mind is always present. You just don`t see it.

You can`t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn`t exist.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

And the Buddha is the person who`s free: free of plans, free of cares.

MANY roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

All phenomena are empty.

Buddhas don`t practice nonsense.

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

Life and death are important. Don`t suffer them in vain.

People who don`t see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn`t apparent because it`s shrouded by sensation and delusion.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher`s help.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

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.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won`t see the Buddha.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.