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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.

Bodhidharma

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Attain Birth Death Enlightenment Long never Subject
People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Fool Liar Nature People Practice See Thoughtfulness Time
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Affliction Delusion Evil Greed Ignorant Mind Passion Poison
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
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
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
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
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
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
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
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
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Buddha Long Mind never Somewhere
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship

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