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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.

Bodhidharma

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
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
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Awareness Embark First Focus Path
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
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Delusion Humanity Humbling Mean Real Reverence Self Worship
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
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
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
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Buddha Cling Concrete Crush Emptiness Idea Preach Student
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
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

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