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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
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 Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Anything Lying Once People Sitting Think
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
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
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
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
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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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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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

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