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

Bodhidharma

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
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
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
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
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Mind Reality Study Understand
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
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality

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