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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

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
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
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Conquered Eight Fall never
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
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
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Buddha Cling Concrete Crush Emptiness Idea Preach Student
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
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Awareness Embark First Focus Path
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Basically Lead Many Path Practice Reason Road
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
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
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
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule

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