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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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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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Ay Basic Perfect Require
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require 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
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Delusion Humility Mean Real Reverence Revering Self Worship
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Come Everything Good Impossible Mind Something
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
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
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Although Another Call Cling Death Life One

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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