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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Bodhidharma

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
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Dharma Nothing Perceive See Understand Wa
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
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
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
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
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
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
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long

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