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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Bodhidharma

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
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
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
I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Conquered Eight Fall never
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Beyond Idea Ned Since Teach Transmit Word Write
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
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
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
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
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
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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