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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.

Bodhidharma

And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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Claim Commit Deed Evil Exist Karma Other Sort
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Buddha Develop Keep Mind Own People Realize Search
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
BODHIDHARMA

Buddha Look Mind See Use
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
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
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
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
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
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
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
BODHIDHARMA

Always Mind Present See

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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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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