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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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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
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
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
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Condition Depend Eanes Failure Mind Neither Success Waxes
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Cause Effect Nature Nonsense Practice Talk Unless See
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
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
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
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

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