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

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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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
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
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
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
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Although Another Call Cling Death Life One
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
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
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
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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Appearance Attach Awareness Empty Fall Mind Mortal Short Unaware

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