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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.

Bodhidharma

But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Awareness Embark First Focus Path
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
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
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
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
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
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Anything Lying Once People Sitting Think
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
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Anyone Body Peace Sexist Stop Suffer Themselves Understand
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
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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Delusion Humanity Humbling Mean Real Reverence Self Worship
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True

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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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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