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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

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Basically Lead Many Path Practice Reason Road
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
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
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Ay Basic Perfect Require
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Delusion Humility Mean Real Reverence Revering Self Worship
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Attach Empty Form Life Nature One Reject
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Cause Effect Nature Nonsense Practice Talk Unless See
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Affliction Delusion Evil Greed Ignorant Mind Passion Poison
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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