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- All know the way, but few actually walk it.
- To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting…
- People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
- If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire…
- To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and…
- 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…
- The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose,…
- 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…
- Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such…
- All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
- All phenomena are empty.
- The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
- To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
- The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
- If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
- All know the way; few actually walk it.
- 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…
- People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
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