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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

Bodhidharma

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.
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Express Language Scripture Sublime True Use Way
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Attach Empty Form Life Nature One Reject
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
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
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Mind Reality Study Understand
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
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
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Affliction Delusion Evil Greed Ignorant Mind Passion Poison
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
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.
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Behind Discrimination False Leave Make Other Return Self True

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