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

Bodhidharma

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
When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Arie Inside Mind Outside Stir World
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
One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Although Another Call Cling Death Life One
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
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
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
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
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Express Language Scripture Sublime True Use Way
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
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Alive Death Full Hunger Mortal Worry
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment

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