People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
BODHIDHARMANot suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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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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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.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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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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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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The 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.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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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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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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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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