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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

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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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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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All know the way, but few actually walk it.

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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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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

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

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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

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At every moment where language can't go, that's your 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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You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

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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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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

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

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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

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

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