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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

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.
BODHIDHARMA

Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Buddha Nature Need See Sutras
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Arie Inside Mind Outside Stir World
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
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Condition Depend Eanes Failure Mind Neither Success Waxes
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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Aggregate Anywhere Body Fiction Five Locate Realize Sense Such Thing
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
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
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 Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Appearance Detach Essence Freedom Goal Practice Way

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