"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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"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom."
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"A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad."
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"But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes."
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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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