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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

Bodhidharma

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
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
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
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Although Another Call Cling Death Life One
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Aware Delude Escape Nothing World
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Accept Awareness Buddha End Karma Mortal Nurture
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
I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Beyond Idea Ned Since Teach Transmit Word Write
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
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship

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