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

Bodhidharma

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Buddha Long Mind never Somewhere
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
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Come Everything Good Impossible Mind Something
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Behind Discrimination False Leave Make Other Return Self True
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
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
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Deepest Distract Nothing People Understanding
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare

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

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