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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
BODHIDHARMA

Death Important Life Suffer Vain
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence 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
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
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
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Delusion Humility Mean Real Reverence Revering Self Worship
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
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
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Delusion Humanity Humbling Mean Real Reverence Self Worship
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will

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