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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Bodhidharma

Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
BODHIDHARMA

Behind Discrimination False Leave Make Other Return Self True
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
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
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Body Element Four Mind Move Outside Somewhere
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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Aggregate Anywhere Body Fiction Five Locate Realize Sense Such Thing
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
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
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
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice

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