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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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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
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha Find Look Nature See
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Always Mind Present See
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Free Liberation Oneself Word
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Away Externally Heart Internally Keep Painting Relationship Yourself
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Everything Nothing Sacred Scare
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Enthrailed Free Lifeless Long
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Charity Give Greatest Regret Yourself
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Bless Fame Fortune Fruit Great Plant Reward Seed Some
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
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Attach Empty Form Life Nature One Reject
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
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Inside Middle Outside Part Reality
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Basically Immaterial Nature See
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
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
People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Fool Liar Nature People Practice See Thoughtfulness Time
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Actual All Few Know Walk Way
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Fish Nothing Order See Seek
But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Body Element Four Mind Move Outside Somewhere
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mind Nature Our Own
One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Although Another Call Cling Death Life One
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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All Dharma Nature Pure Truth
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
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Engage Ignorance Wisdom
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Alive Death Full Hunger Mortal Worry

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