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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.

Bodhidharma

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
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
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
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Buddha Nature Need See Sutras
When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Depend Reality Understand You
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Accordingly Bless Deed Evil Good Hardship Result Sutras
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
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
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
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word

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