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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

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Attach Empty Form Life Nature One Reject
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Delusion Humility Mean Real Reverence Revering Self Worship
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Aware Delude Escape Nothing World
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
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
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 look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Buddha Look Mind See Use
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Deepest Distract Nothing People Understanding
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
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
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
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
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
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Buddha Long Mind never Somewhere
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 Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
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
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Basically Lead Many Path Practice Reason Road
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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Always Dilute Long People Something Up Wake Wise World

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