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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

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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
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Accordingly Bless Deed Evil Good Hardship Result Sutras
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Create Delusion Enlightenment
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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Aggregate Anywhere Body Fiction Five Locate Realize Sense Such Thing
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
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
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
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
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

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