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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

Bodhidharma

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
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
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
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Anything Down Everything Lying Popple Stand Think Walk
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 mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Everything Grow Include Mind Root Thing Understand
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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Anything Exist Fiction Know Neither Whosoever
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

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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