Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
BODHIDHARMATo have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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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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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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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original 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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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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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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