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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.

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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Awareness Embark First Focus Path
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
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
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Delusion Humility Mean Real Reverence Revering Self Worship
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
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Buddha Develop Keep Mind Own People Realize Search
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
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
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
But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Body Element Four Mind Move Outside Somewhere

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