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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.

Bodhidharma

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Buddha Long Mind never Somewhere
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
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
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Cause Effect Nature Nonsense Practice Talk Unless See
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True
The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Express Language Scripture Sublime True Use Way
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Basically Lead Many Path Practice Reason Road
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
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 ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Affliction Delusion Evil Greed Ignorant Mind Passion Poison

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