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The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way

I humble myself to the Perfect "AwakenedOne", The best of teachers, who taught that Whatever is dependently arisen is Unceasing, unborn, Unannihilated, not permanent, Not coming, not going, Without distinction, without identity, And free from conceptual construction.

Chapter 1: Examination of Conditions

Neither from itself nor from another, Nor from both, Nor without a cause, Does anything whatever, anywhere arise. There are four conditions: efficient condition; Percept-object condition; immediate condition; Dominant condition, just so. There is no fifth condition. The essence of entities Is not present in the conditions, and so on. If there is no essence, There can be no otherness-essence. Power to act does not have conditions. There is no power to act without conditions. There are no conditions without power to act. Nor do any have the power to act. These give rise to those, So these are called conditions. As long as those do not come from these, Why are thes

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The Book of Mary

Chapter 4

The Savior said, All nature, all formations, all creatures exist in and with one another, and they will be resolved again into their own roots. For the nature of matter is resolved into the roots of its own nature alone. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Peter said to him, Since you have explained everything to us, tell us this also: What is the sin of the world? The Savior said There is no sin, but it is you who make sin when you do the things that are like the nature of adultery, which is called sin. That is why the Good came into your midst, to the essence of every nature in order to restore it to its root. Then He continued and said, That is why you become sick and die, for you are deprived of the one who can heal you. He who has a mind to understand, let him understand. Matter gave birth to a passion that has no equal, which proceeded from something contrary to nature. Then there arises a disturbance in its whole body. That is why I said to you, Be of good courage,

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40 Messenger Sayings

It is narrated on the authority of one who said: I heard the messenger of God say: "Actions are judged by motives, so each man will have what he intended. Thus, he whose migration was to God and His Messenger, his migration is to God and His Messenger; but he whose migration was for some worldly thing he might gain, or for a wife he might marry, his migration is to that for which he migrated."

Also on the authority of close companion to the messenger who said: While we were one day sitting with the messenger there appeared before us a man dressed in extremely white clothes and with very black hair. No traces of journeying were visible on him, and none of us knew him. He sat down close by the messenger rested his knees against the knees of the messenger and placed his palms over his thighs, and said: "O messenger! Inform me about the way of submission." The messenger replied: "the way of submission is that you should testify that there is no deity worthy of worship except God and that

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The Song of God

Chapter 1

The Blind King said: O Advisor, after my sons and the sons of my brother assembled in the place of pilgrimage at the spiritual battlefield, desiring to fight, what did they do? The King's Advisor said: O King, after looking over the army arranged in military formation by the sons of your brother, King the one on the other side went to his teacher and spoke the following words. O my teacher, behold the great army of the sons of your brother, so expertly arranged by your intelligent disciple the son of the combat master's enemy. Here in this army are many heroic bowmen equal in fighting to the terrible brother and the Great Warrior: great fighters like the student of the great warrior, the King of the Joyous One, and the combat master's enemy. There are also great heroic, powerful fighters. There are the mighty ones, the very powerful ones, the son of the great warrior and the sons of the daughter born of sacrifice. All these warriors are great chariot fighters.

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The Thirty-Seven Practices of All Light Bearers

You see that all things are beyond coming and going, Yet still you strive solely for the sake of living beings— To you, my precious master sage inseparable from Lord Who Looks Down, I offer perpetual homage, respectfully, with body, speech and mind.

The perfect "AwakenedOnes", who are the source of all benefit and joy, Come into being through accomplishing the sacred Sacred Reality. And since this in turn depends on knowing how to practise,

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The Book of Five Rings

I have been many years training in the Way of strategy, called "Two Swords, One School", and now I think I will explain it in writing for the first time. It is now during the first ten days of the tenth month in 1645. I have climbed the Rock Door Mountain on the island to pay homage to heaven, pray to the light-bearer of compassion, and kneel before "AwakenedOne". I am a warrior of Harima province, Member of the Samurai of the noble Protecting Clan, age sixty years.

From youth my heart has been inclined toward the Way of strategy. My first duel was when I was thirteen, I struck down a strategist of the Shinto school, one Arima Kihei. When I was sixteen I struck down an able strategist Tadashima Akiyama. When I was twenty-one I went up to the capital and met all manner of strategists, never once failing to win in many contests.

After that I went from province to province dueling with strategist of various schools, and not once failed to win even though I had as many as sixty encount

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The Book of Seven Principles

We take great pleasure in presenting to the attention of students and investigators of the Secret Doctrines this little work based upon the world-old Esoteric Teachings. There has been so little written upon this subject, not withstanding the countless references to the Teachings in the many works upon occultism, that the many earnest searchers after the Arcane Truths will doubtless welcome the appearance of this present volume.

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The Book of General Truths

One of the signs of relying on one's own deeds is the loss of hope when a downfall occurs.

Your desire for isolation, even though God has put you in the world to gain a living, is a hidden passion. And your desire to gain a living in the world, even though God has put you in isolation is a comedown from lofty aspiration.

Antecedent intentions cannot pierce the walls of predestined Decrees.

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The Secret of the Golden Flower

Chapter 1: The Divine Realm Heart

Master of the Cave said: the state of the Self is called the Way. The Way has no name or form; it is just the essence, just the original spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of the divine realm. The light of the divine realm cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.

Since ancient times, those who realized spiritual immortality have passed on the Way by word of mouth, from one to another.

Since the one who figured out the Way became immortal, master of the Glorious Spring passed on the teaching to me. Then the southern and northern schools of Complete Reality followed, after which the Complete Reality School fully flourished.

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The Stoic Manual

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

The things in our control are by nature free, unrestrained, unhindered; but those not in our control are weak, slavish, restrained, belonging to others. Remember, then, that if you suppose that things which are slavish by nature are