People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
BODHIDHARMAIf 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.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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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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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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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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