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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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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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Deepest Distract Nothing People Understanding
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Death Decisions Every Free Hate Keep Life
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence 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
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
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
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
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
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 have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean

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