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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.

Bodhidharma

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Anything Lying Once People Sitting Think
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Condition Depend Eanes Failure Mind Neither Success Waxes
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Alive Death Full Hunger Mortal Worry
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
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Delusion Humility Mean Real Reverence Revering Self Worship
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.

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