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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Bodhidharma

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Cause Effect Nature Nonsense Practice Talk Unless See
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Come Everything Good Impossible Mind Something
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
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
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
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
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
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
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
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
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 go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Accept Awareness Buddha End Karma Mortal Nurture
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
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek

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