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" A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. "
Freedom
Someone
Good
" According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings. "
Result
Evil
Good
" As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves. "
Ourselves
Ruled
Mortals
" Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. "
Awareness
Evil
Body
" If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past. "
Past
Seed
Great
" 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. "
Understand
Reality
Mind
" Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain. "
Life
Death
Important
" Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice. "
Path
Lead
Reason
" Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit. "
Evil
Will
Bear
" Not creating delusions is enlightenment. "
Enlightenment
Delusions
Creating
" Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. "
Sex
Nature
Once
" Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help. "
Help
Without
Teacher
" People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking. "
People
Always
Longing
" Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us. "
Our
Us
Karma
" The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. "
Natures
Pure
Truth
" The essence of the Way is detachment. "
Way
Essence
Detachment
" The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. "
Anger
Ignorant
Mind
" The mind is always present. You just don't see it. "
See
Mind
Present
" The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included. "
Understand
Grow
Everything
" 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. "
True
Living
Believe
" To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature. "
Find
Your
You
" To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings. "
Awareness
Life
You
" To have a body is to suffer. "
Suffer
Body
" 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. "
Understanding
Know
Seeing
" 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. "
Body
Things
Senses
" Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. "
Worship
Self
Humility
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