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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

Bodhidharma

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.
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Aggregate Anywhere Body Fiction Five Locate Realize Sense Such Thing
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Alive Death Full Hunger Mortal Worry
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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Claim Commit Deed Evil Exist Karma Other Sort
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Awareness Embark First Focus Path
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
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.
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Bless Fame Fortune Fruit Great Plant Reward Seed Some
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Buddha Look Mind See Use
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Arise Awareness Body Buddha Either Mena Mind Prevent
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us

Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

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