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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
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
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Condition Depend Eanes Failure Mind Neither Success Waxes
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
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Dharma Nothing Perceive See Understand Wa
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
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
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
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
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without

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