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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.

Bodhidharma

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
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
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Buddha Look Mind See Use
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
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
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Attain Birth Death Enlightenment Long never Subject
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer

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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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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