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Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.

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Realization doesn’t destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.
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Destroy Drop Individual Moon Realization Reflection Sky Water
Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
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Become Buddha Devil Look Mind Outside
The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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Coem First Go Practice Recognition Step Training
Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
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Actually Bebnefically Drop Mountain Ocean Opportunity Root Single
A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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Fool Himself Men Other Wise
There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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Attach Buddha Flower Mountain Water Way
There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Doubt Meditation Possibility Simplicity Student Thousand Truth
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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Aware Enlightenment Necessary Thinking War
Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.
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Always Badly Beautiful Enough Gain Goal Mean Soemrthing
There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
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Beginning End Enlightenment No Practice
Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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Abide Heart Return Speech Thing
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
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All Anything Archive Enlightenment Meditation Method Oneness
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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Discipline Finding Life Mind Peace Profit Seek Stop
What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
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Good Mind Necessary People Thinking
When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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Appear Body Complete Mind Peace Perfect Thing
Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
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Bear Children Mind Parents Universe Whole

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