Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
BODHIDHARMAI do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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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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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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