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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.

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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
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
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Anything Down Everything Lying Popple Stand Think Walk
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Attach Empty Form Life Nature One Reject
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
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Buddha Nature Need See Sutras
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Buddha Look Mind See Use
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
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
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

At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.

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