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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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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
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
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
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
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
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Anything Lying Once People Sitting Think
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Arise Awareness Body Buddha Either Mena Mind Prevent
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
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Buddha Long Mind never Somewhere
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth

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