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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.

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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Cause Effect Nature Nonsense Practice Talk Unless See
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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Appearance Attach Awareness Empty Fall Mind Mortal Short Unaware
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
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
I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Beyond Idea Ned Since Teach Transmit Word Write
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Bless Fame Fortune Fruit Great Plant Reward Seed Some
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
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
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
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 mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule

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