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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

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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
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
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
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Anyone Body Peace Sexist Stop Suffer Themselves Understand
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
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Ay Basic Perfect Require
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
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel

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