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

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

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If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

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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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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

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All know the way, but few actually walk it.

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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

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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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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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

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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

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. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

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

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

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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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