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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

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
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
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
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
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Express Language Scripture Sublime True Use Way
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
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
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
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Affliction Delusion Evil Greed Ignorant Mind Passion Poison
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer

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