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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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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Every Moment Language Mind
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Behind Truth Ultimate Way Word
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Anyone Body Peace Sexist Stop Suffer Themselves Understand
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
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
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
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Another Existence Reach Suffer Vary
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
The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Express Language Scripture Sublime True Use Way
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Death Essence Way
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
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
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
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See

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