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

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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Fool Liar Nature People Practice See Thoughtfulness Time
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
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Mind Reality Study Understand
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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Always Dilute Long People Something Up Wake Wise World
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Buddha Develop Keep Mind Own People Realize Search
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
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real

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