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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

When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Aware Delude Escape Nothing World
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Anyone Body Peace Sexist Stop Suffer Themselves Understand
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
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
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 creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
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 mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Come Everything Good Impossible Mind Something
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
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

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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