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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

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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
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
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
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Anything Down Everything Lying Popple Stand Think Walk
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
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Anyone Body Peace Sexist Stop Suffer Themselves Understand
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
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Bear Deed Evil Forse Fruit God Neither
But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Body Element Four Mind Move Outside Somewhere
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule

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