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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Delusion Humanity Humbling Mean Real Reverence Self Worship
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
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
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Alive Death Full Hunger Mortal Worry
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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Anything Exist Fiction Know Neither Whosoever
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
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
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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Aggregate Anywhere Body Fiction Five Locate Realize Sense Such Thing
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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