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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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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
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
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
The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Capacity Inexhasisible Limitless Manifestation Mind
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. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Appearance Detach Essence Freedom Goal Practice Way
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Mind Reality Study 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
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Dharma Nothing Perceive See Understand Wa
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Ay Basic Perfect Require
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
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
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan

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