Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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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To have a body is to suffer.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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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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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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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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