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

Bodhidharma

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 Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Express Language Scripture Sublime True Use Way
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
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
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
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People 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
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
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Away Externally Heart Internally Keep Painting Relationship Yourself
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Mind Reality Study Understand
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Condition Depend Eanes Failure Mind Neither Success Waxes
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us

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