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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

Bodhidharma

In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
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
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
If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Buddha Nature Need See Sutras
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
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
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Buddha Cling Concrete Crush Emptiness Idea Preach Student

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