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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.

Bodhidharma

When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Depend Reality Understand You
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
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
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
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
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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Appearance Attach Awareness Empty Fall Mind Mortal Short Unaware
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
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

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