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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

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
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
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
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
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Capacity Inexhasisible Limitless Manifestation Mind
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Come Everything Good Impossible Mind Something
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
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer

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