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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Delusion Humanity Humbling Mean Real Reverence Self Worship
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
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
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
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Anything Lying Once People Sitting Think
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
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
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
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
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own

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