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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.

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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
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha Enlightenment Find Grasp Space Try
Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Beyond Himself Lock Seek Someone
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
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Attain Birth Death Enlightenment Long never Subject
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
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
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddha Nonsense Practice
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Enlight Million One Only Person Teacher
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Awake Bad Find Fortune Freedom Person Someone
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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