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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.

Bodhidharma

Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Delusion Humanity Humbling Mean Real Reverence Self Worship
The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Capacity Inexhasisible Limitless Manifestation Mind
When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Arie Inside Mind Outside Stir World
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
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
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
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
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
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
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Buddha Nature Need See Sutras
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
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
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
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Accordingly Bless Deed Evil Good Hardship Result Sutras

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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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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