Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
BODHIDHARMABut 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.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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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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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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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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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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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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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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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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