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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

Bodhidharma

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
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
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
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
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
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
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
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
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
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
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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Always Dilute Long People Something Up Wake Wise World
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

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