As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
BODHIDHARMAFreeing oneself from words is liberation.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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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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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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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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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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