People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
BODHIDHARMAWhen you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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