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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
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Awareness Embark First Focus Path
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
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
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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Anything Exist Fiction Know Neither Whosoever
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
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
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
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
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Attach Empty Form Life Nature One Reject
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
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
The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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Appearance Attach Awareness Empty Fall Mind Mortal Short Unaware
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Body Element Four Mind Move Outside Somewhere
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without

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