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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

Bodhidharma

People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
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
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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Appearance Attach Awareness Empty Fall Mind Mortal Short Unaware
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
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
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
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’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
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
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

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