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

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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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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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People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

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

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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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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 Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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

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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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To have a body is to suffer.

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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

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

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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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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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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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