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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.

Bodhidharma

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.
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Although Another Call Cling Death Life One
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
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
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
Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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Claim Commit Deed Evil Exist Karma Other Sort
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
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Fool Liar Nature People Practice See Thoughtfulness Time
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
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
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
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth

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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