As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
BODHIDHARMAAs long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
BODHIDHARMATo find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
BODHIDHARMALeaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
BODHIDHARMAMany roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
BODHIDHARMADelusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
BODHIDHARMABuddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
BODHIDHARMABut 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.
BODHIDHARMATo see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
BODHIDHARMAAccording to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
BODHIDHARMAOnce you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
BODHIDHARMAAt every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
BODHIDHARMAOnce you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
BODHIDHARMAExternally 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 go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
BODHIDHARMAThe 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.
BODHIDHARMABuddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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