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Bodhidharma

But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Body Element Four Mind Move Outside Somewhere
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
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
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
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
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Bless Fame Fortune Fruit Great Plant Reward Seed Some
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Death Decisions Every Free Hate Keep Life
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
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 Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel

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