Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
BODHIDHARMAPeople who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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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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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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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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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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