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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

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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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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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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.

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

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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

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

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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

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

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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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

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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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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

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

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