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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

Bodhidharma

People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
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
One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
BODHIDHARMA

Although Another Call Cling Death Life One
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
BODHIDHARMA

Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
BODHIDHARMA

Hold Karma Regard Us
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
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
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
When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
BODHIDHARMA

Depend Reality Understand You
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
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
BODHIDHARMA

Know Worship
When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
BODHIDHARMA

Aware Delude Escape Nothing World
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See

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