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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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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
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
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
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
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Mind Reality Study Understand
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True
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
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal

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