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

Bodhidharma

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
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
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Bless Fame Fortune Fruit Great Plant Reward Seed Some
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
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
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Everything Grow Include Mind Root Thing Understand
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
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
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Behind Discrimination False Leave Make Other Return Self True
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
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
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Alive Death Full Hunger Mortal Worry
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment

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