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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.

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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Awareness Embark First Focus Path
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Appearance Detach Essence Freedom Goal Practice Way
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Accept Awareness Buddha End Karma Mortal Nurture
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
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Affliction Delusion Evil Greed Ignorant Mind Passion Poison
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way

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