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As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

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

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

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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.

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

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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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

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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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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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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

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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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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.

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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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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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

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