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

Bodhidharma

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Ay Basic Perfect Require
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
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
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
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
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
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
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Accordingly Bless Deed Evil Good Hardship Result Sutras
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
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
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
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
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
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
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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Anything Exist Fiction Know Neither Whosoever
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
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
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Basically Lead Many Path Practice Reason Road
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
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
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
One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Although Another Call Cling Death Life One
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World

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