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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

Bodhidharma

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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Anything Exist Fiction Know Neither Whosoever
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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Always Dilute Long People Something Up Wake Wise World
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Awareness Embark First Focus Path
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Everything Grow Include Mind Root Thing Understand
Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Delusion Humanity Humbling Mean Real Reverence Self Worship
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
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
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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Claim Commit Deed Evil Exist Karma Other Sort
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See

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