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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
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
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
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
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
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
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
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Alive Death Full Hunger Mortal Worry
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
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
The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Capacity Inexhasisible Limitless Manifestation Mind
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
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

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