The essence of the Way is detachment.
BODHIDHARMAFreeing oneself from words is liberation.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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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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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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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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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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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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