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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Bodhidharma

If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Buddha Nature Need See Sutras
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Mind Reality Study Understand
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
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
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
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
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Delusion Humility Mean Real Reverence Revering Self Worship
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
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
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

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