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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

Bodhidharma

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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Anything Exist Fiction Know Neither Whosoever
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
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
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Buddha Cling Concrete Crush Emptiness Idea Preach Student
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
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 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
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
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Everything Grow Include Mind Root Thing Understand
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
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
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
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Buddha Develop Keep Mind Own People Realize Search
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
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

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