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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

Bodhidharma

Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
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
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
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
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
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
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
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
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Arie Inside Mind Outside Stir World
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Buddha Develop Keep Mind Own People Realize Search
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek

The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

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