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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.

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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
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Basically Lead Many Path Practice Reason Road
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Attain Birth Death Enlightenment Long never Subject
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
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
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Bear Deed Evil Forse Fruit God Neither
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
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Cause Effect Nature Nonsense Practice Talk Unless See
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
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Death Decisions Every Free Hate Keep Life
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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Cling Free Let Once Stop Thing Transformation
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See

And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.

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