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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Bodhidharma

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
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
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
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
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
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
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Anyone Body Peace Sexist Stop Suffer Themselves Understand
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Buddha Look Mind See Use
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See

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