The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
BODHIDHARMANot suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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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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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Not 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.
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