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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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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
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
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
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
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Ay Basic Perfect Require
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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Cling Free Let Once Stop Thing Transformation
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
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
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
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

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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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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