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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
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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Basically Lead Many Path Practice Reason Road
Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Delusion Humanity Humbling Mean Real Reverence Self Worship
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Awareness Embark First Focus Path
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Hold Karma Regard Us
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
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
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Awareness Buddhahood Delusion Mean
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Bliss Nothing See Suffer
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Longing People World
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
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare

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