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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Bear Deed Evil Forse Fruit God Neither
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
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Ay Basic Perfect Require
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Behind Discrimination False Leave Make Other Return Self True
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
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
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel

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