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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

Bodhidharma

The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
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
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
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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Buddha Cling Concrete Crush Emptiness Idea Preach Student
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.
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Awareness Embark First Focus Path
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
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
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Accept Awareness Buddha End Karma Mortal Nurture
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
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
I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Beyond Idea Ned Since Teach Transmit Word Write
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule

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