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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

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Appearance Detach Essence Freedom Goal Practice Way
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Conquered Eight Fall never
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
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
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
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Away Externally Heart Internally Keep Painting Relationship Yourself
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
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
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
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire

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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