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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

Bodhidharma

Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
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
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
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
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Bear Deed Evil Forse Fruit God Neither
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Attain Birth Death Enlightenment Long never Subject
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Arise Awareness Body Buddha Either Mena Mind Prevent
The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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Appearance Attach Awareness Empty Fall Mind Mortal Short Unaware
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
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
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
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
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
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Dharma Nothing Perceive See Understand Wa
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Accept Awareness Buddha End Karma Mortal Nurture
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Mind Reality Study Understand
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word

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