Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMAYou can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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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.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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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.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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