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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Fool Liar Nature People Practice See Thoughtfulness Time
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
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
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
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Come Everything Good Impossible Mind Something
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
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Affliction Delusion Evil Greed Ignorant Mind Passion Poison
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

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