Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
BODHIDHARMAWhen we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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To have a body is to suffer.
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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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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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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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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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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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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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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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