If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
BODHIDHARMANot engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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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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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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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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