At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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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.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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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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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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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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