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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

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

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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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Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth.

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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. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

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

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You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.

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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

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Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

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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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