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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?

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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Art Expect Spiritual Truth
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Buddhist Go Yourself Zen Proverb
I asked, “What are words?” The tenzo said, “One, two, three, four, five.” I asked again, “What is practice?” “Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.”
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Ask Cooking Entire Hidden Nothing Practice Said Two Universe Word
Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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Easy Seek True Way
Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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Entire Hide Universe
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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Discover Inspirational Life Original Selves War
To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
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Earth Enlight Religion Self Sell Study Thing
If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
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Just Practice See Thing Want
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
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Dewdrop Moon Reflect Relaxation Sky
Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
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Abandon Another Eye Home Land Region Seat Wander
But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
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Ask Go Home Travel World
You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.
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Chase Light Mind Phrase Practice Stop Word
Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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Eight Elbow Eye Three
Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.
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Inch Life Light Moon Puddle Reflect Wide
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
Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
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Beginning End Enlightenment Practice Realization Since

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