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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.

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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Capacity Inexhasisible Limitless Manifestation Mind
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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Claim Commit Deed Evil Exist Karma Other Sort
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Arise Awareness Body Buddha Either Mena Mind Prevent
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Express Language Scripture Sublime True Use Way
When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Arie Inside Mind Outside Stir World
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Away Externally Heart Internally Keep Painting Relationship Yourself
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer

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