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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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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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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

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

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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

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

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

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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

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

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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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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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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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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.

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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the 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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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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