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Whenever Learners Or Those Beyond Learning Awaken The Mind, For The First Time They Plant One Buddha-nature. Working With The Four Elements And Five Clusters, If They Practice Sincerely They Attain Enlightenment. Working With Plants, Trees, Fences And Walls, If They Practice Sincerely They Will Attain Enlightenment. This Is Because The Four Elements And Five Clusters And Plants, Trees, Fences And Walls Are Fellow Students; Because They Are Of The Same Essence, Because They Are The Same Mind And The Same Life, Because They Are The Same Body And The Same Mechanism.

Let Your Heart Go Out And Abide In Things. Let Things Return And Abide In Your Heart.

To Start From The Self And Try To Understand All Things Is Delusion. To Let The Self Be Awakened By All Things Is Enlightenment.

There Is A Simple Way To Become Buddha: When You Refrain From Unwholesome Actions, Are Not Attached To Birth And Death, And Are Compassionate Toward All Sentient Beings, Respectful To Seniors And Kind To Juniors, Not Excluding Or Desiring Anything, With No Designing Thoughts Or Worries, You Will Be Called A Buddha. Do Not Seek Anything Else.

Do Not Arouse Disdainful Mind When You Prepare A Broth Of Wild Grasses; Do Not Arouse Joyful Mind When You Prepare A Fine Cream Soup.