Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMAIn order to see a fish you must watch the water
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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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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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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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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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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