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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

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

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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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

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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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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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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.

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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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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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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

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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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All know the way, but few actually walk it.

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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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

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