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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

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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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Accept Awareness Buddha End Karma Mortal Nurture
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
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
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Appearance Detach Essence Freedom Goal Practice Way
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
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
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
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 ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word

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