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Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

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

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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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

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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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And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

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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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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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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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When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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

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

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

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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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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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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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