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

Bodhidharma

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
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Behind Discrimination False Leave Make Other Return Self True
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
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Affliction Delusion Evil Greed Ignorant Mind Passion Poison
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True
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
I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Beyond Idea Ned Since Teach Transmit Word Write
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
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
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Alive Death Full Hunger Mortal Worry
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See

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