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Instead of telling his disciples to purify their minds, he pointed them to rock walls, to the movements of tigers and cranes, to a hollow reed floating across the Yangtze. This bilingual edition, the only volume of the great teacher's work currently available in English, presents four teachings in their entirety. \"Outline of Practice\" describes the four all-inclusive habits that lead to enlightenment, the \"Bloodstream Sermon\" exhorts students to seek the Buddha by seeing their own nature, the \"Wake-up Sermon\" defends his premise that the most essential method for reaching enlightenment is beholding the mind. 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