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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.

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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Bear Deed Evil Forse Fruit God Neither
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Basically Lead Many Path Practice Reason Road
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
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Everything Grow Include Mind Root Thing Understand
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
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Condition Depend Experience Joy Suffer
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Death Decisions Every Free Hate Keep Life
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Bless Fame Fortune Fruit Great Plant Reward Seed Some
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
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long

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