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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

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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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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

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

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

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

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

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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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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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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The essence of the Way is detachment.

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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

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

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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 give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

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

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

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