If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
BODHIDHARMAThe ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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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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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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