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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Capacity Inexhasisible Limitless Manifestation Mind
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Appear Birth Budhha Death Disappear Freely Move Will
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Mind Reality Study Understand
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
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
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
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Basically Perfect Require Way
The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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Appearance Attach Awareness Empty Fall Mind Mortal Short Unaware
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
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Know Worship
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

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