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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Fool Liar Nature People Practice See Thoughtfulness Time
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
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 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
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
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
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
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
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
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
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
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real

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