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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.

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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Attain Birth Death Enlightenment Long never Subject
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Express Language Scripture Sublime True Use Way
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
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
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
When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Depend Reality Understand You
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Buddha Cling Concrete Crush Emptiness Idea Preach Student
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
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
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Buddha Develop Keep Mind Own People Realize Search

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