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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.

Bodhidharma

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.
BODHIDHARMA

Behind Discrimination False Leave Make Other Return Self True
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
BODHIDHARMA

Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
BODHIDHARMA

Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
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.
BODHIDHARMA

Awareness Embark First Focus Path
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
I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
BODHIDHARMA

Beyond Idea Ned Since Teach Transmit Word Write
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
BODHIDHARMA

Hold Karma Regard Us
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
BODHIDHARMA

Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
BODHIDHARMA

Condition Depend Eanes Failure Mind Neither Success Waxes
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
The essence of the Way is detachment.
BODHIDHARMA

Death Essence Way
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
BODHIDHARMA

Engage Ignorance Wisdom
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
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
BODHIDHARMA

Every Moment Language Mind
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
BODHIDHARMA

Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
BODHIDHARMA

All Dharma Nature Pure Truth

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