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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

Bodhidharma

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
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
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
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
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
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
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Bear Deed Evil Forse Fruit God Neither
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Attain Birth Death Enlightenment Long never Subject
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Dharma Nothing Perceive See Understand Wa
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Arise Awareness Body Buddha Either Mena Mind Prevent

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

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