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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Buddha Develop Keep Mind Own People Realize Search
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Express Language Scripture Sublime True Use Way
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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Cling Free Let Once Stop Thing Transformation
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
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
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
But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Body Element Four Mind Move Outside Somewhere
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
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
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
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
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
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
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Depend Reality Understand You
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Appearance Detach Essence Freedom Goal Practice Way
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
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

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