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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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Beyond Idea Ned Since Teach Transmit Word Write
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
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
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
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
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
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
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
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Alive Death Full Hunger Mortal Worry

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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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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