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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Bodhidharma

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Deepest Distract Nothing People Understanding
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Buddha Long Mind never Somewhere
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
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
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
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
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
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
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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Aggregate Anywhere Body Fiction Five Locate Realize Sense Such Thing

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