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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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Fool Liar Nature People Practice See Thoughtfulness Time
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Conquered Eight Fall never
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
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
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
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
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer

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