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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.

Bodhidharma

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
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
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Anything Down Everything Lying Popple Stand Think Walk
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
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
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Buddha Cling Concrete Crush Emptiness Idea Preach Student
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
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

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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