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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

Bodhidharma

And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
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
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
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Attach Empty Form Life Nature One Reject
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Alive Death Full Hunger Mortal Worry
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Deepest Distract Nothing People Understanding
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
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
The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Capacity Inexhasisible Limitless Manifestation Mind

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