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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

Bodhidharma

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
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Mind Reality Study Understand
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
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
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
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Everything Grow Include Mind Root Thing Understand
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
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Body Element Four Mind Move Outside Somewhere
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk 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
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Bear Deed Evil Forse Fruit God Neither
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule

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