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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Bodhidharma

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
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
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
I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Conquered Eight Fall never
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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Ay Basic Perfect Require
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Awareness Embark First Focus Path
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
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
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
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

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