And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
BODHIDHARMAAll know the way, but few actually walk it.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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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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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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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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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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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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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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