The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
BODHIDHARMAAll the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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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 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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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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