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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.

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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
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Buddha Nature Need See Sutras
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
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Buddha Long Mind never Somewhere
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
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
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Bear Deed Evil Forse Fruit God Neither
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
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

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