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.
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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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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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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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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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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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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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