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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.

Bodhidharma

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Beyond Idea Ned Since Teach Transmit Word Write
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
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Attach Empty Form Life Nature One Reject
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
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
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Attain Birth Death Enlightenment Long never Subject
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
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
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
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Anyone Body Peace Sexist Stop Suffer Themselves Understand
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
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
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See

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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