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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Bodhidharma

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Accept Awareness Buddha End Karma Mortal Nurture
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Basically Lead Many Path Practice Reason Road
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
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
But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Body Element Four Mind Move Outside Somewhere
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Depend Reality Understand You
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Accordingly Bless Deed Evil Good Hardship Result Sutras
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
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire

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