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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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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
If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Buddha Nature Need See Sutras
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Delusion Humanity Humbling Mean Real Reverence Self Worship
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
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
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
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
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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Anything Exist Fiction Know Neither Whosoever
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
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
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Everything Grow Include Mind Root Thing Understand
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Accept Awareness Buddha End Karma Mortal Nurture

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