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.
BODHIDHARMAWorship 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.
BODHIDHARMAReality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
BODHIDHARMAOnce you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
BODHIDHARMAAs long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
BODHIDHARMANot creating delusions is enlightenment.
BODHIDHARMAIf you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
BODHIDHARMABuddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
BODHIDHARMAWorship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
BODHIDHARMAIf your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
BODHIDHARMAIf 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.
BODHIDHARMALeaving 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.
BODHIDHARMADon’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.
BODHIDHARMAThe Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
BODHIDHARMAIf 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?
BODHIDHARMAAnd the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
BODHIDHARMAWhoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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