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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Bodhidharma

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
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
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
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
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Basically Lead Many Path Practice Reason Road
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.
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Bless Fame Fortune Fruit Great Plant Reward Seed Some
The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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Appearance Attach Awareness Empty Fall Mind Mortal Short Unaware
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Arise Awareness Body Buddha Either Mena Mind Prevent
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
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
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean

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