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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

Bodhidharma

Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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Claim Commit Deed Evil Exist Karma Other Sort
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
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
I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Conquered Eight Fall never
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
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
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
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
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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Cling Free Let Once Stop Thing Transformation

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

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