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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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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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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

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. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

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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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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.

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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

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And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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

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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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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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

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If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

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