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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Body Element Four Mind Move Outside Somewhere
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
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
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
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
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Condition Depend Eanes Failure Mind Neither Success Waxes
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
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
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
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
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
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Delusion Humility Mean Real Reverence Revering Self Worship
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See

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