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Bodhidharma

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
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
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
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
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
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
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
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
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence 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
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire

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