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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

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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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
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
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Although Another Call Cling Death Life One
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Deepest Distract Nothing People Understanding
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
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
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
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
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain

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