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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.

Bodhidharma

Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Delusion Humanity Humbling Mean Real Reverence Self Worship
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
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
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
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
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
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
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
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
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

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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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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