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

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

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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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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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

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

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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

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

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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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The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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