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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
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
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Although Another Call Cling Death Life One
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
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
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
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Buddha Long Mind never Somewhere
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Alive Death Full Hunger Mortal Worry
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
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
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

I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

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