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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
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
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
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
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Basically Lead Many Path Practice Reason Road
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Behind Discrimination False Leave Make Other Return Self True
I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Conquered Eight Fall never
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Attain Birth Death Enlightenment Long never Subject
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Anything Lying Once People Sitting Think
But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Body Element Four Mind Move Outside Somewhere

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