When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma 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.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma All know the way, but few actually walk it.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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