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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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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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Anything Exist Fiction Know Neither Whosoever
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Behind Discrimination False Leave Make Other Return Self True
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
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
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
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
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
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Aware Delude Escape Nothing World
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
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

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