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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?

Bodhidharma

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
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Accordingly Bless Deed Evil Good Hardship Result Sutras
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
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Deepest Distract Nothing People Understanding
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
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
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Condition Depend Eanes Failure Mind Neither Success Waxes
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real

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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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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