Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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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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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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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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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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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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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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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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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