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

Bodhidharma

Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
BODHIDHARMA

Alive Death Full Hunger Mortal Worry
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
BODHIDHARMA

Bear Deed Evil Forse Fruit God Neither
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
BODHIDHARMA

Basically Perfect Require Way
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
BODHIDHARMA

Bliss Nothing See Suffer
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.
BODHIDHARMA

Deepest Distract Nothing People Understanding
The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
BODHIDHARMA

Express Language Scripture Sublime True Use Way
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
BODHIDHARMA

Actual All Few Know Walk Way
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
BODHIDHARMA

Mind Nature Our Own
I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
BODHIDHARMA

Beyond Idea Ned Since Teach Transmit Word Write
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
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 Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Dharma Nothing Perceive See Understand Wa

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