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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
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
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
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
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 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
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Attach Empty Form Life Nature One Reject
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
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
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan

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