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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Bodhidharma

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Bless Fame Fortune Fruit Great Plant Reward Seed Some
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Anything Lying Once People Sitting Think
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
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
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
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
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
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
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
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
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
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
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Cause Effect Nature Nonsense Practice Talk Unless See

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