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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

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Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?

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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

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When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

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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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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

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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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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

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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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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

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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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