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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.

Bodhidharma

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
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
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
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
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Capacity Inexhasisible Limitless Manifestation Mind
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Everything Grow Include Mind Root Thing Understand
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
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
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Condition Depend Eanes Failure Mind Neither Success Waxes

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