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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

Bodhidharma

Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Away Externally Heart Internally Keep Painting Relationship Yourself
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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Aggregate Anywhere Body Fiction Five Locate Realize Sense Such Thing
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Condition Depend Eanes Failure Mind Neither Success Waxes
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
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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Claim Commit Deed Evil Exist Karma Other Sort
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Affliction Delusion Evil Greed Ignorant Mind Passion Poison
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom

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