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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

Bodhidharma

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
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.
BODHIDHARMA

Anything Down Everything Lying Popple Stand Think Walk
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Awareness Embark First Focus Path
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
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
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
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Bear Deed Evil Forse Fruit God Neither
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

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