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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

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
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
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
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
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
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Accept Awareness Buddha End Karma Mortal Nurture
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
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
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
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
I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Conquered Eight Fall never
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

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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