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

Bodhidharma

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
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
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
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
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Appearance Detach Essence Freedom Goal Practice Way
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
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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Buddha Nature Need See Sutras
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Come Everything Good Impossible Mind Something
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
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
Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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Claim Commit Deed Evil Exist Karma Other Sort
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Buddha Develop Keep Mind Own People Realize Search

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