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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.

Bodhidharma

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
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Deepest Distract Nothing People Understanding
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Condition Depend Eanes Failure Mind Neither Success Waxes
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Accordingly Bless Deed Evil Good Hardship Result Sutras
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Dharma Nothing Perceive See Understand Wa
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Bear Deed Evil Forse Fruit God Neither
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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Always Dilute Long People Something Up Wake Wise World
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
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
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

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