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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Anyone Body Peace Sexist Stop Suffer Themselves Understand
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
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
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
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
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Conquered Eight Fall never
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Basically Lead Many Path Practice Reason Road
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
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
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Affliction Delusion Evil Greed Ignorant Mind Passion Poison
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way

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