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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

As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
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
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Fool Liar Nature People Practice See Thoughtfulness Time
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Attach Empty Form Life Nature One Reject
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
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
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Arie Inside Mind Outside Stir World
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
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
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan

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