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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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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
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Capacity Inexhasisible Limitless Manifestation Mind
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Alive Death Full Hunger Mortal Worry
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Condition Depend Eanes Failure Mind Neither Success Waxes
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
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
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Death Decisions Every Free Hate Keep Life
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
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

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