Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
BODHIDHARMANot creating delusions is enlightenment.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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If 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.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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