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

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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself.

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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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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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All know the way, but few actually walk it.

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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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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.

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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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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

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

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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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

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