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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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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 Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
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
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Anything Down Everything Lying Popple Stand Think Walk
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
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 mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Aware Delude Escape Nothing World
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
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Arise Awareness Body Buddha Either Mena Mind Prevent
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

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