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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Arie Inside Mind Outside Stir World
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
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Fool Liar Nature People Practice See Thoughtfulness Time
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Attain Birth Death Enlightenment Long never Subject
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
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
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Attach Empty Form Life Nature One Reject
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
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

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