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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.

Bodhidharma

When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Depend Reality Understand You
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Condition Depend Eanes Failure Mind Neither Success Waxes
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
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Express Language Scripture Sublime True Use Way
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Accordingly Bless Deed Evil Good Hardship Result Sutras
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Anyone Body Peace Sexist Stop Suffer Themselves 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

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