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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

The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Capacity Inexhasisible Limitless Manifestation Mind
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
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
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
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
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
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
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
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
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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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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