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

Bodhidharma

Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Death Decisions Every Free Hate Keep Life
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
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Buddha Develop Keep Mind Own People Realize Search
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
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Ay Basic Perfect Require
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
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
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
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Arise Awareness Body Buddha Either Mena Mind Prevent
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way

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