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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

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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
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
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
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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Always Dilute Long People Something Up Wake Wise World
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Accordingly Bless Deed Evil Good Hardship Result Sutras
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
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
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
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
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Accept Awareness Buddha End Karma Mortal Nurture

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