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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

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
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Buddha Nature Need See Sutras
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Deepest Distract Nothing People Understanding
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
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
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
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Everything Grow Include Mind Root Thing Understand
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
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
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

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