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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

Bodhidharma

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Accept Awareness Buddha End Karma Mortal Nurture
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
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
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
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
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
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
One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Although Another Call Cling Death Life One
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
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
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power

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