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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
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Depend Reality Understand You
When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Aware Delude Escape Nothing World
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
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
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
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
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

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