A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.
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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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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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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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To have a body is to suffer.
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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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Words are illusions.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Your mind is nirvana.
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Your nature is the Buddha.
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