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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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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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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Your nature is the Buddha.
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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
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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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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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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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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.