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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?

Bodhidharma

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
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
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
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
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
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
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
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
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way

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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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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