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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

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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
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
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
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
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
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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Aggregate Anywhere Body Fiction Five Locate Realize Sense Such Thing
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Away Externally Heart Internally Keep Painting Relationship Yourself
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
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Behind Discrimination False Leave Make Other Return Self True
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare

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