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To have a body is to suffer.

Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Anyone Body Peace Sexist Stop Suffer Themselves Understand
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
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
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Deepest Distract Nothing People Understanding
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
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
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
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

To have a body is to suffer.

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