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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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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
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
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Condition Morais Ourselves Rule
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
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
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
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
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
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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Cling Free Let Once Stop Thing Transformation
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
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
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

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