When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
BODHIDHARMAIf you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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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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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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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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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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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into 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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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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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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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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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