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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

Bodhidharma

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
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
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
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
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
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
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
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
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
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
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

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