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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

Bodhidharma

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
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
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Awareness Embark First Focus Path
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
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
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
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
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Express Language Scripture Sublime True Use Way
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Anything Down Everything Lying Popple Stand Think Walk
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

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