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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Bodhidharma

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
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Arise Awareness Body Buddha Either Mena Mind Prevent
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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Buddha Nature Need See Sutras
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
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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Cling Free Let Once Stop Thing Transformation
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Come Everything Good Impossible Mind Something

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