Bodhidarma Lineage texts

This comes from my personal experience: there is no buddha, there is no nature, there is no you or others. Everything you can name or conceive is only a concept inhabiting the realm of the mind, just like the main character in a dream thinks he/she is this or that and meets/talks/interacts with other people/situations/objects, whereas he was really only in the company of projections of himself. Find out where your "I AM" feeling comes from and stay focussed in that. Who are you? Turn the mind inward, focus on the sense of being. There is no concept that can help you, as you can be either awake or asleep, no intermediate condition exists. Either you are aware that you were dreaming or you are not. This does not mean that you can control your projections, even if this is true to a certain extent. Like in a dream you have no conscious control over what happens. Awakning is rather easy but the mind (with which you identify but is not you) will do anything to prevent it. You can succeed but beware, though, because you must be ready to lose the world and others, for we are one (one sense of "I am"). Complete stillness of mind and a sense of being completely alone (consequently: no desires - everything is your projection -, no fears but complete loneliness) is what there is there. Probably you do not really want it right now, and that is why you keep on fooling yourself. There is no other way to experience the world (that in absolute terms is yourself) than by pretending you are only a part of it.

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