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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

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
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
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Anything Lying Once People Sitting Think
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Buddha Nature Need See Sutras
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
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
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
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Buddha Look Mind See Use
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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Cling Free Let Once Stop Thing Transformation
The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Capacity Inexhasisible Limitless Manifestation Mind
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
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality

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