Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
BODHIDHARMAAnd as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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