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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Everything Grow Include Mind Root Thing Understand
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Death Decisions Every Free Hate Keep Life
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
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
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Come Everything Good Impossible Mind Something
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Buddha Long Mind never Somewhere
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
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
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
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 give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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