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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.

Bodhidharma

Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Delusion Humanity Humbling Mean Real Reverence Self Worship
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
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
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
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Death Decisions Every Free Hate Keep Life
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Bless Fame Fortune Fruit Great Plant Reward Seed Some
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Dharma Nothing Perceive See Understand Wa
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 you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Depend Reality Understand You
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
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

At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.

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