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

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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Delusion Humanity Humbling Mean Real Reverence Self Worship
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Away Externally Heart Internally Keep Painting Relationship Yourself
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Buddha Cling Concrete Crush Emptiness Idea Preach Student
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
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
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Buddha Look Mind See Use
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Awareness Embark First Focus Path
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real

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