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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

Bodhidharma

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Arise Awareness Body Buddha Either Mena Mind Prevent
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Away Externally Heart Internally Keep Painting Relationship Yourself
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
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
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
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
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Buddha Look Mind See Use
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
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
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Death Decisions Every Free Hate Keep Life
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Bear Deed Evil Forse Fruit God Neither
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

You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

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