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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True
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
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
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Arie Inside Mind Outside Stir World
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
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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Claim Commit Deed Evil Exist Karma Other Sort
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Buddha Nature Need See Sutras
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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Always Dilute Long People Something Up Wake Wise World
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship

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