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As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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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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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.

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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.

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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

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At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

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If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

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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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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself.

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

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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.

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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

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