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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

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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 true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Express Language Scripture Sublime True Use Way
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Delusion Humanity Humbling Mean Real Reverence Self Worship
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Ay Basic Perfect Require
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Delusion Humility Mean Real Reverence Revering Self Worship
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Away Externally Heart Internally Keep Painting Relationship Yourself
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone

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