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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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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
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Buddha Long Mind never Somewhere
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Behind Discrimination False Leave Make Other Return Self True
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Deepest Distract Nothing People Understanding
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
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
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddha Liberate Mortal
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Condition Depend Eanes Failure Mind Neither Success Waxes

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