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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

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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
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
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 awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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Appearance Attach Awareness Empty Fall Mind Mortal Short Unaware
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
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
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
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
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
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
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
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

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