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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.

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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddha Feel Meditation Mind Patience Power
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
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
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
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
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
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Buddha Cling Concrete Crush Emptiness Idea Preach Student
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
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Death Decisions Every Free Hate Keep Life
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
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
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
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
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Anything Lying Once People Sitting Think
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddha Land Mind Pire
To have a body is to suffer.
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Body Suffer

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