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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

Bodhidharma

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
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Fool Liar Nature People Practice See Thoughtfulness Time
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Anything Lying Once People Sitting Think
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
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
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
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
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

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