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

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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

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People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

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

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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

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The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

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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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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.

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To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.

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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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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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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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

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

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

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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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