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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.

Bodhidharma

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Anything Down Everything Lying Popple Stand Think Walk
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Ay Basic Perfect Require
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Appearance Detach Essence Freedom Goal Practice Way
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
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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Aggregate Anywhere Body Fiction Five Locate Realize Sense Such Thing
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
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Behind Discrimination False Leave Make Other Return Self True
I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Conquered Eight Fall never
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power

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