Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
BODHIDHARMANot suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
BODHIDHARMAThe essence of the Way is detachment.
BODHIDHARMATo seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
BODHIDHARMANot 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.
BODHIDHARMAPeople of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
BODHIDHARMABut when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
BODHIDHARMAAt every moment where language can’t go, that’s your 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.
BODHIDHARMAI never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
BODHIDHARMAOne clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
BODHIDHARMAOnly one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
BODHIDHARMAEverything sacred, nothing sacred.
BODHIDHARMAAll the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
BODHIDHARMAUnless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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