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

Bodhidharma

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
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
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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Anything Down Everything Lying Popple Stand Think Walk
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Buddha Cling Concrete Crush Emptiness Idea Preach Student
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
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
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
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
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Buddha Develop Keep Mind Own People Realize Search
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Behind Discrimination False Leave Make Other Return Self True
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself

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