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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Everything Grow Include Mind Root Thing Understand
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
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
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
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
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Arise Awareness Body Buddha Either Mena Mind Prevent
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
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
I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Conquered Eight Fall never
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality

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