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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
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
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
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Basically Lead Many Path Practice Reason Road
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
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
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Mind Reality Study Understand
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
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
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
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
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

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