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

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Express Language Scripture Sublime True Use Way
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
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
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Beyond Idea Ned Since Teach Transmit Word Write
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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Always Dilute Long People Something Up Wake Wise 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
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
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
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom

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