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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

Bodhidharma

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
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
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
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Alive Death Full Hunger Mortal Worry
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
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
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Ay Basic Perfect Require
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
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
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Death Decisions Every Free Hate Keep Life
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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