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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.

Bodhidharma

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
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
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
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Buddha Cling Concrete Crush Emptiness Idea Preach Student
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Accordingly Bless Deed Evil Good Hardship Result Sutras
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
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
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean

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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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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