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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.

Bodhidharma

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
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Buddha Develop Keep Mind Own People Realize Search
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
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
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
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
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Bear Deed Evil Forse Fruit God Neither
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
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule

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