Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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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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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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