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.
BODHIDHARMATo give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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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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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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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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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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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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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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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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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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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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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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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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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