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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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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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A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.

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You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

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

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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

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

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

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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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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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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

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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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When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

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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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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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Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

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