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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

Bodhidharma

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
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
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
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
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Although Another Call Cling Death Life One
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Buddha Look Mind See Use
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 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
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Buddha Long Mind never Somewhere
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
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

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