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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.

Bodhidharma

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Beyond Idea Ned Since Teach Transmit Word Write
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
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Come Everything Good Impossible Mind Something
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
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
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Deepest Distract Nothing People Understanding
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
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
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word
When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Aware Delude Escape Nothing World
The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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Appearance Attach Awareness Empty Fall Mind Mortal Short Unaware
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
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
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
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Attach Empty Form Life Nature One Reject
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek

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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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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