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

Bodhidharma

People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Fool Liar Nature People Practice See Thoughtfulness Time
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
When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Aware Delude Escape Nothing World
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
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
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Anything Lying Once People Sitting Think
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
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
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
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
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
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
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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