Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
BODHIDHARMANot creating delusions is enlightenment.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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