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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

Bodhidharma

Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Depend Reality Understand You
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
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
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
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
If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Buddha Nature Need See Sutras
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Arie Inside Mind Outside Stir World
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
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 give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
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
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment

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