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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.

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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
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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Aggregate Anywhere Body Fiction Five Locate Realize Sense Such Thing
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
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 deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Buddha Develop Keep Mind Own People Realize Search
When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Depend Reality Understand You
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
When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Arie Inside Mind Outside Stir World
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Arise Awareness Body Buddha Either Mena Mind Prevent
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
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
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

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