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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

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Buddha Develop Keep Mind Own People Realize Search
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Aware Delude Escape Nothing World
If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Buddha Nature Need See Sutras
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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Cling Free Let Once Stop Thing Transformation
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Ay Basic Perfect Require
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
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
People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Fool Liar Nature People Practice See Thoughtfulness Time

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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