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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.

Bodhidharma

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.
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Mind Reality Study Understand
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek 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
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Attach Empty Form Life Nature One Reject
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Affliction Delusion Evil Greed Ignorant Mind Passion Poison
But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Body Element Four Mind Move Outside Somewhere
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
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer

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