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The essence of the Way is detachment.

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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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The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.

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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on 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.

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A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.

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

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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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

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

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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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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

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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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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

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

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

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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

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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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