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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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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

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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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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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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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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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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

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

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

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

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

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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

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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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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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

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