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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.

Bodhidharma

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Body Element Four Mind Move Outside Somewhere
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Delusion Humility Mean Real Reverence Revering Self Worship
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
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
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Attain Birth Death Enlightenment Long never Subject
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
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
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
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Condition Depend Eanes Failure Mind Neither Success Waxes

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