Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
BODHIDHARMAWhoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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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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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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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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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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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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To 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.
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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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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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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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