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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
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Ay Basic Perfect Require
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
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
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
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
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
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Away Externally Heart Internally Keep Painting Relationship Yourself
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 true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Express Language Scripture Sublime True Use Way
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher

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