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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

Bodhidharma

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
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
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
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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Aggregate Anywhere Body Fiction Five Locate Realize Sense Such Thing
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
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
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
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
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
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Behind Discrimination False Leave Make Other Return Self True
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Arise Awareness Body Buddha Either Mena Mind Prevent
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Awareness Embark First Focus Path

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