Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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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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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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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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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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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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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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