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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.

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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Buddha Care Free Person Plan
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Anyone Body Peace Sexist Stop Suffer Themselves Understand
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
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
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
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Appearance Detach Essence Freedom Goal Practice Way
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
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
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Cause Effect Nature Nonsense Practice Talk Unless See
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Follow Iranian Joy Path Silent Unmove Wind
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Buddha Mind No Without
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
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Accordingly Bless Deed Evil Good Hardship Result Sutras
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

But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.

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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.

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