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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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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
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
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
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
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Accept Awareness Buddha End Karma Mortal Nurture
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
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
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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Anything Exist Fiction Know Neither Whosoever
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
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
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Attach Empty Form Life Nature One Reject
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Deceive Hype Long Mena Real
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Buddha Look Mind See Use
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
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
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
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Death Important Life Suffer Vain
When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Aware Delude Escape Nothing World
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
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
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word

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