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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

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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
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
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
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 your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Arie Inside Mind Outside Stir World
When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Aware Delude Escape Nothing World
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
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
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
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
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
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
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary

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